ANTIQUE MUSES AS STAGES OF MYTHOPOETIC GENESIS: METRIC AND DYNAMIC MASTERING AN EIGHT-ELEMENT NARRATIVE MODEL (USING THE NOVEL «ON THE EVE» BY I. TURGENEV)

The object of the research is the metric and dynamic ways of mastering the 8-element narrative model. The study deals with the ancient idea of the muses, which are arranged in one of the established images of the planetary spheres in such a way that it is possible to apply this order to the description of creative processes, for example, narration: Clio is responsible for describing the historical context; Calliope designates the stage of introducing a character with epic potential; Terpsichore notes transition to action; Melpomene signals the current conflict; Erato – about falling in love and fighting for his/her love; the lyrical mood symbolized by Euterpe and the fabulous violation of the foundations accompany each other; Polyhymnia marks the milestone, fatal stage, getting the result; Urania – the stage of completion, difficult achievement, and empathy. The result of the mythopoeic genesis, which consists in applying this order to the stages of the narrative, is an 8-element cycle, including exposition, initiation, development of action, collision/climax 1, collision/climax 2, complication of action, denouement and epilogue. The attributes of the muses and the properties of the planetary spheres to which the muses are attributed have been successfully applied to the metric 8-element model and to the 24- element model obtained as a result of the dynamic mastering the 8-element model. The revealed properties of the stages of the 8-element narrative cycle are steadily manifested throughout the incomplete five 8-element and two 24-element cycles of the novel "On the Eve" by I. Turgenev