William Elliot Griffis (1843–1928)
Auteur de Welsh Fairy Tales
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Œuvres de William Elliot Griffis
The Mikado's Empire: A History of Japan from the Age of Gods to the Meiji Era (660 BC - AD 1872) (Stone Bridge… (1894) 33 exemplaires
The American in Holland: Sentimental rambles in the eleven provinces of the Netherlands (Atlantic monthly library of… (1907) 8 exemplaires
Asiatic history 4 exemplaires
Swiss Fairy Tales 4 exemplaires
The lily among thorns: A study of the biblical drama entitled, The song of songs (2012) 3 exemplaires
Japan in history, folk lore and art 3 exemplaires
Korean Mythology Collection: The Stories, Folklore, Fairy Tales, Folktales, and History of Korea 3 exemplaires
A Maker of the New Orient: Samuel Robbins Brown 2 exemplaires
The Romance of Discovery: a Thousand years of exploration and unveiling of Conti (1897) 2 exemplaires
The influence of the Netherlands in the making of the English commonwealth and the American republic, with notice of… 2 exemplaires
The unmannerly tiger, and other Korean tales 2 exemplaires
America in the East, Our History, Prospects, Problems and Duties in the Pacific Ocean (1899) 2 exemplaires
Millard Fillmore, constructive statesman, defender of the Constitution, President of the United States 1 exemplaire
Japanese Fansz 1 exemplaire
Myths and Legends Around the World - Collection 07 1 exemplaire
A Literary Legend: 'The Oriental 1 exemplaire
The Mikado's Empire. Book I. History of Japan, from 660 B.C to 1872, A.D. Book II. Personal experiences,… (2012) 1 exemplaire
Primary Sources, Historical Collections: Japan in History, Folklore and Art, with a foreword by T. S. Wentworth (2011) 1 exemplaire
Proverbs of Japan;: A little picture of the Japanese philosophy of life as mirrored in their proverbs 1 exemplaire
The pathfinders of the revolution; a story of the great march into the wilderness and lake region of New York in 1779 1 exemplaire
Bonnie Scotland and What We Owe Her 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Beauty and the Beast: Classic Tales About Animal Brides and Grooms from Around the World (2017) — Contributeur — 104 exemplaires
Building Japan 1868-1876 (1991) — Intorductory, Postscript & Notes, quelques éditions — 4 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1843-09-17
- Date de décès
- 1928-02-05
- Lieu de sépulture
- Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, New York, USA
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Lieu du décès
- Winter Park, Florida, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Winter Park, Florida, USA
Schenectady, New York, USA
Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA - Études
- Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Union College (DD|Doctor of Divinity)
Union Theological Seminary
Reformed Church in America, New Brunswick (known today as the New Brunswick Theological Seminary) - Professions
- chemistry teacher
physics teacher
missionary
author
american orientalist
congregational minister (tout afficher 8)
lecturer
educator - Organisations
- Asiatic Society of Japan
Asiatic Society of Korea
Historical Society of the Imperial University of Tokyo
Meirokusha
National Institute of Arts and Letters (later to become the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
American Historical Association (tout afficher 7)
U.S. Naval Institute - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (1898)
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 53
- Aussi par
- 4
- Membres
- 460
- Popularité
- #53,419
- Évaluation
- 3.3
- Critiques
- 9
- ISBN
- 122
- Langues
- 3
- Favoris
- 2
I still like fairy tales like this because they situate the perspectives of the time and the place, and they also don't pretend that this isn't the heritage, or handwave it away, or make it seem like it wasn't that bad at the time when it was. I was most fascinated hearing about the hints of Pagan druidry and similar, but they are largely only hints, and in many cases all of these figures die to make way for Christianity, saints, and farms. These fairy tales are dark not because they're particularly grotesque, but because they show us that in many ways, we actually haven't come that far from these roots, and we have a long way to go.… (plus d'informations)