Agenda

Nemanja Radulović is a full professor of Folk Literature at the Department of Serbian Literature and South Slavic Literatures, Faculty of Philology, University of Belgrade. He studies fairy tales and folk legends; beside folklore, his field of research is esotericism and its relation to literature.

Books published: Slika sveta u srpskim narodnim bajkama (2009); Podzemni tok. Srpska književnost i ezoterizam (2009); Slike, formule, jednostavni oblici (2015); Podzemni tok 2. Srpska književnost i ezoterizam (2020); Gde ruža i lotos cveta. Slika Indije u srpskoj književnosti 19-20.v (in print).

Edited volumes: Esotericism, Literature and Culture in Central and Eastern Europe (2018); Studies of Esotericism in Central and Eastern Europe (2019); Disenchantment, Re-enchantment and Folklore Genres (2021); Indija i srpska književnost (2021).

ABSTRACT 
Folklore studies emerged in Romanticism through deep changes in the history of ideas and the networks built by intellectuals interested in new views substantially helped in the formation of a new field. Above all, it was the network created by J. Grimm. This framework helps us better understand the cultural transfer between Europe and Serbia. Folklore material was transferred from Serbian culture to Europe, and (Central) European concepts of Volksgeist, folklore etc., to Serbian intellectuals. Closer study of this twoway transfer shows some of its under-researched aspects (the impact of personal experience on adopting the new concepts, for example). The activity of Vuk Karadžić shows both his participation in a European network and the making of his own. Following the «nods» in them, we can follow the transfer of a new image of folklore between people and their adoption of such concept.