Dirk W. Mosig (essay date 1987)
SOURCE: Mosig, Dirk W. “The Four Faces of the Outsider.” In Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Darrell Schweitzer, pp. 18–41. San Bernardino, CA: The Borgo Press, 1987.
[In the following essay, Mosig investigates the “message” in the story “The Outsider,” based on four methods of interpretation: the autobiographical, the psychological, the metaphysical, and the philosophical.]
H. P. Lovecraft did not write to entertain, nor did he tailor his impressive fiction with the paying market in mind....
Source: Short Story Criticism, ©2002 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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