{"id":"https://openalex.org/W2066145685","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","title":"The Wolfpen Notebooks: James Still's Record of Appalachian Life","display_name":"The Wolfpen Notebooks: James Still's Record of Appalachian Life","publication_year":1991,"publication_date":"1991-06-01","ids":{"openalex":"https://openalex.org/W2066145685","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","mag":"2066145685"},"language":"en","primary_location":{"id":"doi:10.1353/aph.1991.0100","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S109088475","display_name":"Appalachian heritage","issn_l":"0363-2318","issn":["0363-2318","1940-5081"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["poland-70"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315743","host_organization_name":"University of North Carolina Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315743"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["University of North Carolina Press"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Appalachian Heritage","raw_type":"journal-article"},"volume":null,"type":"article","is_traditional":true,"indexed_in":["crossref"],"open_access":{"is_oa":false,"oa_status":"closed","oa_url":null,"any_repository_has_fulltext":false},"authorships":[{"author_position":"first","author":{"id":"https://openalex.org/A5109924123","display_name":"Jim Wayne Miller","orcid":null,"observed_orcids":[]},"institutions":[],"countries":[],"is_corresponding":true,"raw_author_name":"Jim Wayne Miller","raw_affiliation_strings":[],"raw_orcid":null,"affiliations":[]}],"institutions":[],"countries_distinct_count":0,"institutions_distinct_count":0,"corresponding_author_ids":["https://openalex.org/A5109924123"],"corresponding_institution_ids":[],"apc_list":null,"apc_paid":null,"fwci":0.0,"has_fulltext":false,"cited_by_count":0,"citation_normalized_percentile":{"value":0.35860058,"is_in_top_1_percent":false,"is_in_top_10_percent":false},"cited_by_percentile_year":null,"biblio":{"volume":"19","issue":"3","first_page":"20","last_page":"24"},"is_retracted":false,"is_paratext":false,"is_xpac":false,"primary_topic":{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14107","display_name":"Appalachian Local History","score":0.6776999831199646,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},"topics":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14107","display_name":"Appalachian Local History","score":0.6776999831199646,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3300","display_name":"General Social Sciences"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T14494","display_name":"American Literature and Culture","score":0.1225999966263771,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/1202","display_name":"History"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/12","display_name":"Arts and Humanities"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}},{"id":"https://openalex.org/T11640","display_name":"Linguistic Variation and Morphology","score":0.06809999793767929,"subfield":{"id":"https://openalex.org/subfields/3310","display_name":"Linguistics and Language"},"field":{"id":"https://openalex.org/fields/33","display_name":"Social Sciences"},"domain":{"id":"https://openalex.org/domains/2","display_name":"Social Sciences"}}],"keywords":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/james-still","display_name":"James Still","score":0.9580000042915344},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-dialect","display_name":"Appalachian dialect","score":0.6230000257492065},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-life","display_name":"Appalachian life","score":0.3840000033378601},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/knott-county-kentucky","display_name":"Knott County, Kentucky","score":0.8679999709129333},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-literature","display_name":"Appalachian literature","score":0.36500000953674316},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-folklore","display_name":"Appalachian folklore","score":0.3149999976158142},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-foodways","display_name":"Appalachian foodways","score":0.414000004529953},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-culture","display_name":"Appalachian culture","score":0.42100000381469727},{"id":"https://openalex.org/keywords/appalachian-identity","display_name":"Appalachian identity","score":0.3959999978542328}],"concepts":[{"id":"https://openalex.org/C95457728","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q309","display_name":"History","level":0,"score":0.5765030980110168},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C125468537","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q214961","display_name":"Improvisation","level":2,"score":0.5624581575393677},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C164913051","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q482","display_name":"Poetry","level":2,"score":0.45377546548843384},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C2777496998","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1536587","display_name":"Miller","level":2,"score":0.4200358986854553},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C124952713","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8242","display_name":"Literature","level":1,"score":0.41136717796325684},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C52119013","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q50637","display_name":"Art history","level":1,"score":0.3313859701156616},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C142362112","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q735","display_name":"Art","level":0,"score":0.3173665702342987},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C153349607","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q36649","display_name":"Visual arts","level":1,"score":0.293466180562973},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C18903297","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7150","display_name":"Ecology","level":1,"score":0.0},{"id":"https://openalex.org/C86803240","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q420","display_name":"Biology","level":0,"score":0.0}],"mesh":[],"locations_count":1,"locations":[{"id":"doi:10.1353/aph.1991.0100","doi":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","is_oa":false,"landing_page_url":"https://doi.org/10.1353/aph.1991.0100","pdf_url":null,"source":{"id":"https://openalex.org/S109088475","display_name":"Appalachian heritage","issn_l":"0363-2318","issn":["0363-2318","1940-5081"],"is_oa":false,"is_in_doaj":false,"is_core":false,"listed_in":["poland-70"],"host_organization":"https://openalex.org/P4310315743","host_organization_name":"University of North Carolina Press","host_organization_lineage":["https://openalex.org/P4310315743"],"host_organization_lineage_names":["University of North Carolina Press"],"type":"journal"},"license":null,"license_id":null,"version":"publishedVersion","is_accepted":true,"is_published":true,"raw_source_name":"Appalachian Heritage","raw_type":"journal-article"}],"best_oa_location":null,"sustainable_development_goals":[],"study_designs":[],"awards":[],"funders":[],"has_content":{"grobid_xml":false,"pdf":false},"content_urls":null,"referenced_works_count":5,"referenced_works":["https://openalex.org/W579652885","https://openalex.org/W1498674580","https://openalex.org/W1530623595","https://openalex.org/W2346749670","https://openalex.org/W2463832299"],"related_works":["https://openalex.org/W6988099823","https://openalex.org/W230359302","https://openalex.org/W161946272","https://openalex.org/W4239026968","https://openalex.org/W2029237954","https://openalex.org/W7207266571","https://openalex.org/W1568678895","https://openalex.org/W2328979717","https://openalex.org/W2800508803","https://openalex.org/W2970125108"],"abstract_inverted_index":{"The":[0,60,79,97,114,296,487,502,569,591],"Wolfpen":[1,80,98,503],"Notebooks:":[2,81],"James":[3,22,454,474],"Still's":[4,120,140],"Record":[5,83],"of":[6,15,26,71,84,90,105,139,199,227,276,299,358,386,390,438,466,510,520,540,545,594,612,617,633,665],"Appalachian":[7,85],"Life":[8,86],"Jim":[9],"Wayne":[10],"Miller":[11],"\"There":[12],"are":[13,63,75,127,273,596],"twenty-three":[14],"them,":[16],"six":[17],"by":[18,407],"four":[19],"inches,":[20],"wire-hinged,\"1":[21],"Still":[23,109,455,475],"has":[24,145,255,647],"written":[25],"the":[27,69,103,106,136,160,197,225,274,335,423,433,439,445,468,472,495,507,538,543,552,575,585,610,625,645,663],"notebooks":[28,62],"he":[29,144,377],"began":[30],"keeping":[31],"more":[32,151],"than":[33,152],"half":[34,153],"a":[35,42,111,154,167,207,284,318,365,370,373,388,530,564,567,631,639,642],"century":[36],"ago,":[37],"soon":[38],"after":[39],"moving":[40],"to":[41,157,180,234,256,326,333,361,364,397,432,436,629,650,655],"two-story":[43],"log":[44],"house":[45],"between":[46],"Dead":[47],"Mare":[48],"Branch":[49],"and":[50,124,147,267,306,329,340,412,458,471,542,547,582,635,668,674],"Wolfpen,":[51],"on":[52,442,478,537,566],"Little":[53,479],"Carr":[54,480],"Creek":[55],"in":[56,65,78,163,213,313,409,607],"Knott":[57,168,482],"County,":[58,483],"Kentucky.":[59,72],"original":[61],"preserved":[64],"Special":[66],"Collections":[67],"at":[68,216,426,476,584],"University":[70,88],"Their":[73],"contents":[74],"now":[76],"available":[77],"A":[82,355,676,684],"(Lexington:":[87],"Press":[89],"Kentucky,":[91,512],"1991).":[92],"An":[93,615,652],"extraordinarily":[94],"multifaceted":[95],"record,":[96],"Notebooks":[99,504],"reveal":[100,505],"much":[101],"about":[102,135,325,369,641],"life":[104],"scattered":[107],"community":[108,165],"became":[110],"part":[112],"of.":[113],"entries":[115],"often":[116,262,395],"suggest":[117],"sources":[118],"for":[119,130,150,159,196,303,534],"poems,":[121],"short":[122],"stones,":[123],"novels.":[125],"They":[126],"especially":[128],"revealing":[129],"what":[131,179,253],"they":[132,605],"tell":[133],"us":[134],"folk":[137,211,220,230,260,300,508,514,670],"speech":[138,198,212,221,231,244,261,301,310,393,416,509,515,671],"chosen":[141],"place,":[142,215],"where":[143],"lived":[146],"listened":[148],"attentively":[149],"century.":[155],"Asked":[156],"account":[158],"way":[161],"people":[162,173],"her":[164,200],"spoke,":[166],"County":[169],"woman":[170],"observed:":[171],"\"The":[172],"here":[174],"not":[175,193,429],"having":[176,430],"been":[177],"told":[178],"do":[181,187,251],"or":[182,210,240,293,435,500],"say":[183],"'the":[184],"right":[185],"way,'":[186],"things":[188],"their":[189],"way.\"":[190],"Her":[191],"explanation":[192,209],"only":[194],"accounts":[195,302],"east":[201,449,511],"Kentucky":[202,450,484],"neighbors,":[203],"it":[204,254,280,343,381,403,535,562,579],"is":[205,222,245,281,384,394,417,529,555,572,580,589,623,658,672,679],"also":[206],"fair":[208],"any":[214,217],"time.":[218],"For":[219],"unconcerned":[223],"with":[224,252,264,372,405,609,619],"criterion":[226],"correctness.":[228],"Consequently,":[229],"frequently":[232],"manages":[233],"be":[235,334],"eloquent":[236],"without":[237],"being":[238,359],"grammatical":[239],"correct":[241],".":[242,308,550],"Folk":[243,309,392,415],"too":[246],"busy":[247],"improvising":[248],",":[249,270,400,524,601],"making":[250],"work":[257],"with.":[258],"While":[259],"deals":[263,404],"general":[265],"propositions":[266],"universal":[268],"experiences":[269],"its":[271,304],"materials":[272,424],"particulars":[275],"local":[277],"life.":[278],"So":[279],"little":[282,319],"wonder":[283],"Hindi":[285],"proverb":[286],"maintains":[287],"that":[288,506],"language":[289],"changes":[290],"every":[291],"eighteen":[292],"twenty":[294],"miles!":[295],"improvisational":[297],"spirit":[298],"color":[305],"vividness":[307],"employs":[311],"verbs":[312],"striking":[314],"ways:":[315],"\"You'd":[316],"betterthrow":[317],"air":[320],"into":[321],"them":[322],"tires.":[323],"They're":[324],"go":[327],"flat":[328],"hunker":[330],"up.\"\u2014\"I":[331],"used":[332,628],"worst":[336],"drunkard":[337],"ever":[338],"was":[339],"I":[341,346],"throwed":[342],"down.":[344],"If":[345],"could,":[347],"anybody":[348],"can.\"":[349],"Verbs":[350],"become":[351,648],"nouns,":[352],"nouns":[353],"verbs.":[354],"man":[356,371,685],"speaks":[357],"able":[360],"belly":[362],"up":[363],"table.":[366],"Someone":[367,383],"tells":[368],"head":[374],"so":[375],"big":[376],"can":[378,491],"hardly":[379],"pack":[380,389],"around.":[382],"accused":[385],"telling":[387],"lies.":[391],"close":[396],"poetry":[398],"because":[399],"like":[401,513],"poetry,":[402],"abstractions":[406],"discoursing":[408],"concrete":[410],"circumstances":[411],"particular":[413],"instances.":[414],"verbal":[418],"bricolage,":[419],"discourse":[420],"made":[421],"from":[422,444],"immediately":[425],"hand.":[427],"Thus,":[428],"recourse":[431],"Kamasutra":[434],"one":[437],"several":[440],"treatises":[441],"love":[443],"Middle":[446],"Ages,":[447],"an":[448],"sage":[451],"whose":[452],"words":[453],"recorded":[456],"distinguishes":[457],"names":[459],"his":[460],"own":[461],"categories:":[462],"There's":[463],"two":[464],"kinds":[465],"love:":[467],"'ground-hog":[469],"case'":[470],"20":[473],"home":[477],"Creek,":[481],"'cholera":[485],"case.'":[486],"ground-hog":[488],"case":[489,497],"you":[490],"get":[492],"over.":[493],"With":[494],"cholera":[496],"it's":[498],"marry":[499],"die.\"":[501],"everywhere,":[516],"contains":[517],"numerous":[518],"instances":[519],"naming\u2014of":[521],"plants,":[522],"animals":[523],"seasons,":[525],"places.":[526],"Such":[527],"naming":[528,664],"fundamentally":[531],"poetic":[532],"activity,":[533],"relies":[536],"drawing":[539],"analogies":[541],"expression":[544],"implicit":[546],"explicit":[548],"metaphors":[549],"Thus":[551],"castor":[553],"bean":[554],"known":[556,573,659],"locally":[557],"as":[558,574,660],"dog":[559],"tick":[560,565],"(because":[561,578,604],"resembles":[563],"dog).":[568],"brown":[570,634],"thrush":[571],"corn-planter":[576],"bird":[577],"seen":[581],"heard":[583],"time":[586],"when":[587],"corn":[588,618],"planted).":[590],"cold":[592],"spells":[593],"spring":[595],"redbud":[597],"winter,":[598],"dogwood":[599],"winter":[600,603],"blackberry":[602],"occur":[606],"conjunction":[608],"blooming":[611],"these":[613],"plants).":[614],"ear":[616],"variously":[620],"colored":[621],"grains":[622],"skewbald,":[624],"same":[626],"word":[627,646],"describe":[630],"horse":[632],"white":[636],"coloring.":[637],"(In":[638],"folksong":[640],"famous":[643],"racehorse,":[644],"corrupted":[649],"Stewball.)":[651],"herb":[653],"believed":[654],"cure":[656],"incontinence":[657],"pee-in-the-bed.":[661],"In":[662],"people,":[666],"places,":[667],"things,":[669],"rough":[673],"ready.":[675],"prized":[677],"rifle":[678],"called":[680],"\"Death":[681],"o'":[682],"Many.\"":[683],"named":[686],"Ulysses,":[687],"notorious...":[688]},"counts_by_year":[],"updated_date":"2026-11-04T10:54:05.112534","created_date":"2016-06-24T00:00:00"}
