Abstract
The article examines artistic discourse as a dynamic space in which significant ethical transformations take place. The literary text is considered not only as an aesthetic utterance, but also as a form of ethical judgment, a means of modeling moral conflicts and identities. Particular attention is paid to the interplay of language, style, and ideological implications in nineteenth-century Russian literature – specifically, in the works of N. V. Gogol, F. M. Dostoevsky, N. S. Leskov, and M. E. Saltykov-Shchedrin. Using an analysis of narrative strategies, representations of law and justice, and the categories of guilt and forgiveness, the article demonstrates how literature functions as a space of ethical reflection and how stylistic devices become instruments for the philosophical comprehension of morality. The study concludes that literary discourse is capable not only of reflecting but also of shaping transformations in society’s ethical paradigms.
Keywords
Ethics; literary discourse; style; ideology; moral conflict; nineteenth-century Russian literature.