
Title
Hemingway’s Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis
Document Type
Essay
Annotation
Rhetorical analysis of Hemingway’s aging protagonists found in “A Clean Well-Lighted Place,” The Sun Also Rises, A Farewell to Arms, and The Old Man and the Sea, characterizing these heroes as possessing practical wisdom coupled with virtue, gained through experience and suffering. Also published in Journal of Aging and Identity 5, no. 4 (2000): 207-23.
Published in
Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective
Date
1999
Pages
61-76
Citation
Sipiora, Phillip. “Hemingway’s Aging Heroes and the Concept of Phronesis.” In Aging and Identity: A Humanities Perspective, edited by Dara Munson Deats and Lagretta Tallent Lenker, 61-76. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1999.