Talk:An American Dream Expanded

Welcome to the digital Humanities project, AAD Expanded. This page will facilitate the discussion on the development of this project, beginning in the spring of 2019.

Purview

This project aims to create a critical and cultural context around the composition and subsequent reaction to Norman Mailer’s novel An American Dream. It will begin with J. Michael Lennon’s 2004 Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969. Additional interviews, reviews, essays, and miscellany will be added as they are collected, permissions cleared, and digitized.

Access

Participation requires:

An account on Project Mailer. This cannot be created by users, but must be done by the editor, Gerald R. Lucas. Send him an email requesting an account (please include the username you would like).
Access to original documents. Original documents are stored on Google Drive. Please request access using your Google account. There will be numerous source documents we will be working with on this project.

To Do

To-do list for An American Dream Expanded:
All pages should use `{{aade-sm}}` somewhere on the page. This gives the appropriate categories and a banner about the page’s part on the project Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969^[1] Introduction needs to be posted (subpage) 76 letters need to be posted^[2] use header for all: `{{NMLetter}}` use footer navbar for all: linked off of the AAD Letters page and the footer navbar 4 Appendices, including a bibliography and timeline need to be posted (subpages) Add notes and other research, like identifying important people, events, publications, etc. Add navbox Finalize design Add support pages
Priority 1 (top)

Discussion

Letters

Translating this book from print to digital will be our primary objective for the spring 2019. Here are some things we have to decide:

Should each letter have its own page? I’m leaning toward yes here.

How should each page be named so each is unique? I think subpages would be the way to go here, like Structured Vision, but then what do we call each page? “To: So and So”, like: Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi? What do we do when we have more than one letter to Eiichi Yaminishi? Should we add the date? Norman Mailer's Letters on An American Dream, 1963–1969/To: Eiichi Yaminishi (November 25, 1963) It’s beginning to get unwieldy. Suggestions?

How should they be formatted? I.e., how should they appear on the screen? I think we should create a navbar to link them. Other ideas? Check out WD entries for ideas.

What will be our category schema?

Notes

↑ We might take some design and organization ideas from Barry H. Leeds’ The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer.
↑ See Bob Begiebing, April 19, 1989 as a model. I have begun listing them and linking them off of the AAD:Letters page.

[1] We might take some design and organization ideas from Barry H. Leeds’ The Structured Vision of Norman Mailer.

[2] See Bob Begiebing, April 19, 1989 as a model. I have begun listing them and linking them off of the AAD:Letters page.

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