Feldman, Burton

This folder contains drafts and notes of Wolfgang Yourgrau's ''Essay on Nietzsche.'' Burton Feldman helped Yourgrau to edit the work. There is also a bound copy of the work with notation.

This folder contains Burton Feldman's material that he used to compile a bibliography for his book ''112 Mercer Street''. The contents are a list of late and lost book notices from Penrose Library, and a few photos of Feldman's bookshelf.

This folder contains notes for one of Burton Feldman's fiction projects. These notes are some of the groundwork that would set up his later endeavor to create a character that Feldman referred to as the ''Subhuman.'' The bulk of the developing plot seems to be devoted to the memoirs of a fictional tyrant.

This folder contains more than one hundred drafts by Feldman of the introduction to ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860'' that have been extracted from a large binder. Each draft is numbered with the notes that contributed to the changes.

This folder is the contents of a binder labeled ''Themes 1 - 85, Notes 1/2 to 1/20''. The contents pertain to Burton Feldman's research on mythology that would eventually become ''The Rise of Modern Mythology, 1680 - 1860''. The notes and drafts are a collection of 85 different themes in mythology compiled by Burton.

This folder contains records of Burton Feldman's being taken care of in a nursing facility for one month towards the end of 2002.

This folder contains notes about Franz Liszt for a fiction project by Burton Feldman called ''Chopin's Bones.'' The story is a murder mystery featuring Feldman's stock characters Wrist and Emma Carew.

This folder contains a copy of a paper written by Burton Feldman in 1978 entitled ''Myth, Kinship, and Politics: How Poetry Articulates What Myth Does Not Say.''

This folder contains Note cards used by Burton Feldman for organizing his thoughts while compiling his notes for ''The Rise of Modern Mythology: 1680 - 1860''.

This folder contains notes on plotlines and characters for Burton Feldman's mystery novels. The notes are mostly related to a story idea called ''Memory Bank.'' There is also a list of novel titles in the notebook.