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"Illuminated with a wide variety of images, this book traces the long history of yellow around the world. In antiquity, yellow was considered a sacred color, a symbol of light, warmth, wealth, and prosperity. But in medieval Europe, it became highly ambivalent: greenish yellow came to signify demonic sulfur and bile, the color of forgers, felon knights, traitors, Judas, and Lucifer--while warm yellow recalled honey and gold, serving as a sign of joy, pleasure and abundance. The yellow stars of the Holocaust were seared into the color's negative tradition. In Europe today, yellow has diminished to a discreet color. Greenish yellow can still be seen as dangerous, sickly, or poisonous, and golden yellow remains positive, but the color is absent in much of everyday life and is lacking in symbolism. In Asia, however, yellow pigments like ocher and orpiment and dyes like saffron, curcuma, and gaude are abundant. Painting and dyeing in this color has been easier than in Europe, offering a richer and more varied palette of yellows that has granted the color a more positive meaning. In ancient China, for example, yellow clothing was reserved for the emperor. In India, the color is seen as a source of happiness: wearing a little yellow is believed to keep evil away. And importantly, it is the color of Buddhism, whose temple doors are marked with the color. Yellow continues to have different meanings in different cultural traditions, but in most, the color remains associated with light and sun, something that can be seen from afar and that seems warm and always in motion"--

Jaune dans l'art. --- Symbolisme des couleurs --- Couleur --- Jaune. --- Yellow in art. --- Symbolism of colors --- Color --- Yellow. --- Histoire. --- Aspect social --- Aspect psychologique --- History. --- Social aspects --- Psychological aspects --- Adage. --- Adjective. --- Athanasius Kircher. --- Beige. --- Bible Historiale. --- Blond. --- Cagot. --- Caravaggio. --- Chivalric romance. --- Church Fathers. --- Classical Latin. --- Clothing. --- Coat of arms. --- Courtly love. --- Cubism. --- Degenerate art. --- Demagogue. --- Dionysus. --- Dyeing. --- Egyptomania. --- Etymology. --- Eurystheus. --- Facsimile. --- Fauvism. --- Gold leaf. --- Grandes Chroniques de France. --- Grisaille. --- Hebrews. --- Heraldry. --- Iconography. --- Impressionism. --- Iseult. --- Jan Hus. --- Jan Steen. --- Jean Chardin. --- Lacquer. --- Ludwig Wittgenstein. --- Medieval Latin. --- Middle French. --- Naples yellow. --- Nibelungenlied. --- Ochre. --- On the Eve. --- Orpiment. --- Paul Gauguin. --- Paul Klee. --- Philip II of Macedon. --- Pigment. --- Pope Innocent III. --- Prostitution. --- Red hair. --- Rococo. --- Roman Empire. --- Roman de Fauvel. --- Roman sculpture. --- Silver age. --- Simon Vouet. --- Sumptuary law. --- Superiority (short story). --- Talc. --- The Other Hand. --- The Philosopher. --- The Tables of the Law. --- The Various. --- Trickster. --- Urine. --- Victor Hugo. --- Vinegar. --- Yellow Peril. --- Yellow journalism. --- Language and languages --- Gold-leaf. --- Psychology. --- Psychological aspects.

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In Quest of the Hero makes available for a new generation of readers two key works on hero myths: Otto Rank's Myth of the Birth of the Hero and the central section of Lord Raglan's The Hero. Amplifying these is Alan Dundes's fascinating contemporary inquiry, "The Hero Pattern and the Life of Jesus." Examined here are the patterns found in the lore surrounding historical or legendary figures like Gilgamesh, Moses, David, Oedipus, Odysseus, Perseus, Heracles, Aeneas, Romulus, Siegfried, Lohengrin, Arthur, and Buddha. Rank's monograph remains the classic application of Freudian theory to hero myths. In The Hero the noted English ethnologist Raglan singles out the myth-ritualist pattern in James Frazer's many-sided Golden Bough and applies that pattern to hero myths. Dundes, the eminent folklorist at the University of California at Berkeley, applies the theories of Rank, Raglan, and others to the case of Jesus. In his introduction to this selection from Rank, Raglan, and Dundes, Robert Segal, author of the major study of Joseph Campbell, charts the history of theorizing about hero myths and compares the approaches of Rank, Raglan, Dundes, and Campbell.

Heroes --- Mythology. --- Jesus Christ --- Mythological interpretations. --- Aarne–Thompson classification systems. --- Afrasiab. --- Alan Dundes. --- Alcmene. --- Amulius. --- Archetype. --- Areoi. --- Astyages. --- Attis. --- Biography. --- Books of Kings. --- Carl Jung. --- Castor and Pollux. --- Castration. --- Combatant. --- Consciousness. --- Consummation. --- Counter-Reformation. --- Creation myth. --- Cuckold. --- Culture hero. --- Dhritarashtra. --- Dirce. --- Etymology. --- Euhemerism. --- Eunuch. --- Eurystheus. --- Fairy tale. --- Flood myth. --- Gottfried von Strassburg. --- Grandparent. --- Great King. --- Greek mythology. --- Gwydion. --- Herder. --- Hero Tales. --- Herodotus. --- Historical Jesus. --- Historical figure. --- Historicity of Jesus. --- Historicity. --- Important People. --- Incest. --- John Badby. --- Justin Martyr. --- Laius. --- Legend. --- Legendary creature. --- Longus. --- Mendicant. --- Menelaus. --- Morganatic marriage. --- Mr. --- Myth and ritual. --- Myth. --- Mythological Cycle. --- Narrative. --- Neurosis. --- Nimrod. --- Numitor. --- Oedipus complex. --- Oedipus. --- Ogier the Dane. --- Otto Rank. --- Our Hero. --- Parricide. --- Pelias. --- Persecution. --- Poetry. --- Priam. --- Proetus. --- Pseudohistory. --- Quibble (plot device). --- Religion. --- Rite. --- Romanticism. --- Romulus and Remus. --- Self-interest. --- Telephus. --- Teuthras. --- The Hero with a Thousand Faces. --- The Interpretation of Dreams. --- The Other Hand. --- The Persecutor. --- The Persians. --- The Power of Myth. --- The Various. --- Theocritus. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Triptolemus. --- Trojan War. --- Unless. --- Uther Pendragon. --- V. --- Vladimir Propp. --- Warfare. --- Zahhak. --- Zoroaster.