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<article article-type="research-article" dtd-version="1.3" xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xml:lang="ru"><front><journal-meta><journal-id journal-id-type="publisher-id">filkult</journal-id><journal-title-group><journal-title xml:lang="ru">Филология и культура. Philology and Culture</journal-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>Philology and Culture</trans-title></trans-title-group></journal-title-group><issn pub-type="ppub">2782-4756</issn><publisher><publisher-name>Казанский (Приволжский) федеральный университет</publisher-name></publisher></journal-meta><article-meta><article-id pub-id-type="doi">10.26907/2782-4756-2026-84-2-145-151</article-id><article-id custom-type="elpub" pub-id-type="custom">filkult-1370</article-id><article-categories><subj-group subj-group-type="heading"><subject>Research Article</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="ru"><subject>ФИЛОЛОГИЧЕСКИЕ НАУКИ. ЛИТЕРАТУРОВЕДЕНИЕ</subject></subj-group><subj-group subj-group-type="section-heading" xml:lang="en"><subject>PHILOLOGICAL STUDIES. LITERARY STUDIES</subject></subj-group></article-categories><title-group><article-title>«Кровь и время»: «Кровавый меридиан» Кормака Маккарти и историческая память о Вьетнамской войне</article-title><trans-title-group xml:lang="en"><trans-title>“Blood and time”: Cormac Mccarthy’s “Blood meridian” and historical memory of the Vietnam war</trans-title></trans-title-group></title-group><contrib-group><contrib contrib-type="author" corresp="yes"><name-alternatives><name name-style="eastern" xml:lang="ru"><surname>Вихрова</surname><given-names>К. А.</given-names></name><name name-style="western" xml:lang="en"><surname>Vikhrova</surname><given-names>K.</given-names></name></name-alternatives><bio xml:lang="ru"><p>Вихрова Ксения Александровна, старший преподаватель, Санкт-Петербургская государственная художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; лаборант-исследователь, Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет</p><p>191028, Санкт-Петербург, Соляной, 13; 199034, Санкт-Петербург, Университетская наб., 7–9</p></bio><bio xml:lang="en"><p>Vikhrova Kseniya Aleksandrovna, Assistant Professor, St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design; Research Assistant, St. Petersburg State University,</p><p>13 Solyanoy Ln., St. Petersburg, 191028; 7/9 Universitetskaya Emb., Saint Petersburg, 199034</p></bio><email xlink:type="simple">r2654256@gmail.com</email><xref ref-type="aff" rid="aff-1"/></contrib></contrib-group><aff-alternatives id="aff-1"><aff xml:lang="ru"><institution>Санкт-Петербургская государственная художественно-промышленная академия имени А. Л. Штиглица; &#13;
Санкт-Петербургский государственный университет</institution></aff><aff xml:lang="en"><institution>St. Petersburg Stieglitz State Academy of Art and Design; &#13;
St. Petersburg State University</institution></aff></aff-alternatives><pub-date pub-type="collection"><year>2026</year></pub-date><pub-date pub-type="epub"><day>01</day><month>07</month><year>2026</year></pub-date><volume>0</volume><issue>2</issue><fpage>145</fpage><lpage>151</lpage><permissions><copyright-statement>Copyright &amp;#x00A9; Вихрова К.А., 2026</copyright-statement><copyright-year>2026</copyright-year><copyright-holder xml:lang="ru">Вихрова К.А.</copyright-holder><copyright-holder xml:lang="en">Vikhrova K.</copyright-holder><license xml:lang="ru" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>Данная работа распространяется под лицензией Creative Commons Attribution 4.0.</license-p></license><license xml:lang="en" license-type="creative-commons-attribution" xlink:href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" xlink:type="simple"><license-p>This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.</license-p></license></permissions><self-uri xlink:href="https://filkult.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1370">https://filkult.elpub.ru/jour/article/view/1370</self-uri><abstract><p>Роман «Кровавый меридиан» Кормака Маккарти демифологизирует национальный миф об американском фронтире, обращаясь к событиям середины XIX в. Историческая дистанция задает проблемное поле исследования и позволяет рассматривать текст как форму осмысления более поздних коллективных травм США. В данной статье роман «Кровавый меридиан» рассматривается в контексте проявленных в нем трансформаций американской исторической памяти об участии во Вьетнамской войне. Проблематика исследования определяется необходимостью соотнести художественную демифологизацию пограничного опыта с кризисом национальной идентичности, вызванным вьетнамской кампанией, и последующей его переработкой в дискурсивных стратегиях Рональда Рейгана. В качестве методологической основы используются положения теории травмы, позволяющие рассматривать фронтир не как завершенный этап экспансии, а как повторяющуюся матрицу легитимации насилия. В результате проведенного анализа показано, что в «Кровавом меридиане» образ фронтира актуализируется как источник коллективной травмы, встроенной в национальный миф, а роман выстраивает исторический континуум между насилием пограничной экспансии и опытом Вьетнамской войны, выявляя устойчивость механизмов моральной инверсии, дегуманизации противника и мессианской легитимации агрессии. Тем самым текст Маккарти проблематизирует представление о моральной исключительности американского исторического опыта и демонстрирует травматическую природу образа фронтира в структуре национального самосознания.</p></abstract><trans-abstract xml:lang="en"><p>“Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy demythologizes the national myth of the American frontier by revisiting the events of the mid-nineteenth century. This historical distance defines the scope of the study and allows the text to be read as a meditation on later collective traumas in U.S. history. The article approaches “Blood Meridian” in light of the transformations of American historical memory of the Vietnam War as reflected in the novel. The study seeks to relate the novel’s demythologization of the frontier experience to the crisis of national identity triggered by the war and to the subsequent reinterpretation of that experience in the discursive strategies of Ronald Reagan. Methodologically, the analysis draws on trauma theory, which makes it possible to view the frontier not as a completed phase of expansion but as a recurring matrix for the legitimation of violence. The analysis shows that in “Blood Meridian” the image of the frontier emerges as a source of collective trauma embedded within the national myth. The novel establishes a historical continuum between the violence of frontier expansion and the experience of the Vietnam War, highlighting the persistence of moral inversion, the dehumanization of the enemy, and the messianic legitimation of aggression. McCarthy’s text thus challenges the notion of American moral exceptionalism and reveals the traumatic dimension of the frontier image within the structure of national self-consciousness.</p></trans-abstract><kwd-group xml:lang="ru"><kwd>Кормак Маккарти</kwd><kwd>«Кровавый меридиан»</kwd><kwd>образ фронтира</kwd><kwd>Вьетнамская война</kwd><kwd>национальный миф</kwd><kwd>коллективная травма</kwd></kwd-group><kwd-group xml:lang="en"><kwd>Cormac McCarthy</kwd><kwd>Blood Meridian</kwd><kwd>frontier image</kwd><kwd>Vietnam War</kwd><kwd>national myth</kwd><kwd>collective trauma</kwd></kwd-group><funding-group><funding-statement xml:lang="ru">Исследование выполнено за счет гранта СПбГУ GZ_F_2026: «Измеряя традицию: квантитативная диахрония в общей и лингвистической поэтике», ID 140123808.</funding-statement></funding-group></article-meta></front><back><ref-list><title>References</title><ref id="cit1"><label>1</label><citation-alternatives><mixed-citation xml:lang="ru">Turner F. J. 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