Russel B. Nye

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Russel Blaine Nye
Born(1913-02-17)February 17, 1913
American Culture
InstitutionsMichigan State University

Russel Blaine Nye (February 17, 1913 – September 2, 1993) was an American professor of English who in the 1960s pioneered

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography
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Born in

University of Wisconsin.[2] Nye taught in the English department at Michigan State University from 1941 to 1979.[3]

In 1957 after Ralph Ulveling, the director of the Detroit Public Library, claimed that L. Frank Baum's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz had no value and should not be stocked by libraries, Nye and Martin Gardner published a new critical edition of the novel highlighting its value, causing a firestorm of controversy, followed by eventual acceptance.

In 1970 he co-founded the Popular Culture Association with Ray B. Browne and Marshall Fishwick, working to shape a new academic discipline called Popular Culture Theory that blurred the traditional distinctions between high and low culture, focusing on mass culture mediums like television and the Internet, and cultural archetypes like comic book heroes.

He died in Lansing, Michigan in 1993.

Works

  • Russel B. Nye, The Mind and Art of George Bancroft (1939)[4]
  • Russel B. Nye, George Bancroft: Brahmin Rebel (1944)[5]
  • Russel B. Nye, Fettered Freedom: Civil Liberties and the Slavery Controversy 1830-1860 (1948) Michigan State University Press
  • Russel B. Nye and Jack Eric Morpurgo, A History of the United States. Volume One: The Birth of the U.S.A. (1955)
  • Russel B. Nye and Jack Eric Morpurgo, A History of the United States. Volume Two: The Growth of the U.S.A. (1955; Third Edition 1970) Penguin Books
  • Russel B. Nye and Martin Gardner, The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was (1957)[6]
  • Russel B. Nye, The cultural life of the new Nation, 1776-1830 (1960) New York: Harper
  • Russel B. Nye, This almost chosen people; essays in the history of American ideas (1966) Michigan State University Press
  • Russel B. Nye and Ray B. Browne, Crises on Campus (1971)[7]
  • Russel B. Nye and Arra M. Garab, Modern Essays (1971)[8]
  • Russel B. Nye, Society and culture in America, 1830-1860 (1974) New York: Harper
  • Joseph G. Waldmeir, Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye (1978)[9]
  • Harold E. Hinds et al. (eds.), Popular Culture Theory and Methodology: A Basic Introduction (2006)[10]

References

  1. ^ "Russel B Nye". Social Security Death Index. New England Historic Genealogical Society. Retrieved June 24, 2011.
  2. ^ "Russel B(laine) Nye - 1913-1993" Contemporary Authors Gale
  3. ^ Waldmeir, Joseph, Essays in Honor of Russel B. Nye (East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press, 1978), vii.
  4. ^ Nye, Russel Blaine (1939-01-01). The mind and art of George Bancroft. University of Wisconsin--Madison.
  5. ISBN 9780374961336
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  6. ISBN 9780870133664
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  7. ISBN 9780879720612
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  8. ^ Nye, Russel B.; Garab, Arra M. (1971-01-01). Modern Essays. Scott, Forsman and Company.
  9. ISBN 9780870132094
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  10. ISBN 9780879728717
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