Шкільне вивчення міфологічних структур літературних творів у контексті подієвого аналізу

Abstract

The article is devoted to the Researching of mythological structures of artistic works in the context of the event analysis at the classes of Ukrainian literature in the 9th-11th forms of a comprehensive school. In the article, a general model of studying a story episode with a mythological imagery is described. The experimental way of analyzing a work is realized in the deep comprehension of key story episodes, a significant part of which contains well-represented mythological structures. Their influence on the development of the plot line of the work actualizes the need for the development of a special scheme for the analysis of relevant fragments of the text. The article analyzes the peculiarities of the study of the mythological component in the development of the plot, or the parts of the external composition. The purpose and tasks of work with the plot episode are determined, concrete examples are given from the literary works of the school program. The author suggests a case analysis for texts in which mythological structures act as follows: as separate narrative parts of the work; as the central imagery of important episodes, events, fragments of the text; as the key myths. The article presents the author’s general scheme of analysis of the plot episode with mythological imagery. The theoretical material is illustratedby the step-by-step elaboration of the myth of the antique titanium of Prometheus in the poem by T. Shevchenko "The Caucasus", which was introduced into the exposition of the work.