FOLLOWING THE PATHS OF GESEMANN, MURKO, PARRY, LORD ‒ RADOSAV MEDENICA AS A FIELD RESEARCHER

It is difficult to find an author who left a greater mark in Montenegrin and South Slavic research on (oral) literature with fewer monographs than Radosav Medenica. In addition to writing two important monographs (Banović Strahinja u krugu varijanata and Naša narodna epika i njeni tvorci) and publishing dozens of articles in Montenegrin and South Slavic periodicals, in the course of his six-decade-long research career he also initiated the longest-running domestic journal Zapisi, acted as the owner and editor-in-chief of the interwar specialised journal Prilozi proučavanju narodne poezije, and participated in as many as fourteen symposia of the Association of Folklorists of Yugoslavia. Radosav Medenica was successful in all fields of study of oral literature – as a field researcher, as a theorist of oral literature and a comparator. He thus earned a special place among Montenegrin scholars of oral literature, side by side with Nikola Banašević, Vido Latković and Novak Kilibarda.