Quote Sources

The quotations about the essay at the foot of each page at chrisarthur.org were taken from the following sources:

• Graham Good, The Observing Self: Rediscovering the Essay, Routledge, London: 1988, p.182
• T.W. Adorno, "The Essay as Form", translated by Bob Hullot-Kentnor & Frederic Will, New German Critique, Vol.32 (1984), p.169
• Susan Orlean (ed.), The Best American Essays 2005, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 2005, p.xvii
• Lydia Fakundiny, Discoveries (John S. Knight Writing Program, Cornell University), Fall 1995 no.1, editor's note, p.6
• Susan Sontag (ed.), The Best American Essays 1992, Ticknor & Fields, New York, p.xv
• Rachel Blau DuPlessis, "f-Words: An Essay on the Essay", American Literature, Vol.68 no.1 (1996), p.29
• Cynthia Ozick (ed.), The Best American Essays 1998, Houghton Mifflin, Boston: 1998, p.xv
• Alexander Smith, Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country, Strahan & Co., London: 1863, p.27
• Richard Chadbourne, "A Puzzling Literary Genre: Comparative Views of the Essay", Comparative Literature Studies, Vol.20 no.1 (1983), p.149.
• G. Douglas Atkins, Estranging the Familiar: Toward a Revitalized Critical Writing, University of Georgia Press, Athens GA: 1992, p.153
• Robert Atwan writing in the Foreword to Joyce Carol Oates (ed.), The Best American Essays 1991, Ticknor & Fields, New York: 1991, p.x
• Susan Sontag (ed.), The Best American Essays 1992, Ticknor & Fields, New York, p.xv
• Georg Luckács, Soul and Form, tr.Anna Bostock, The MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 1974, p.7
• Paul Heilker, The Essay: Theory and Pedagogy for an Active Form, National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana Illinois: 1996, p.17
• Carl Klaus, Chris Anderson & Rebecca Faery (eds.), In Depth: Essayists for our Time, Harcourt Brace Jovanovitch, San Diego: 1990, p.3