Haiku and Ockham's Razor: the Example of Jack Kerouac

Haiku and Ockham's Razor: the Example of Jack Kerouac

Kerouac, Jack

Haiku, American

Haiku--appreciation

Haiku--explication

Mike Spikes compares Kerouac's 300 page novel, On the Road, with one of his haiku, asserting the superiority of the haiku in treating the same themes.

Spikes, Mike

http://www.modernhaiku.org/issue44-2/MH44-2-HaikuOckhamsRazor-Kerouac-Spikes-2013.pdf

Modern Haiku
44.2

Summer 2013

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