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American irregular: frontier conflict and the philosophy of war in Cormac McCarthy's Blood Meridian, or The Evening Redness in the West

机译：美国的非常规行为：科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy）的《血经》中的边境冲突和战争哲学

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This article examines the portrayal of frontier conflict in American writer, Cormac McCarthy's 1985 novel, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West. It argues that McCarthy's work is one of the most profound American literary meditations ever composed on the subject of irregular conflict. The article traces the novel's literary antecedents and historical background and analyses its use of language, its structural narrative, and its lyrical descriptions of bloodshed and extreme guerrilla violence on the Texas-Mexican frontier in the mid nineteenth century. Particular attention is paid to McCarthy's development of a philosophy of war, which is related to the Counter-Enlightenment ideas of Joseph de Maistre and Friedrich Nietzsche. It is suggested that McCarthy employs the experience of irregular conflict on the American frontier as a philosophical lens to articulate the idea of war as a form of divination - an approach that is based on a mixture of Maistre's theory of redemptive violence and Nietzsche's cult of the existential warrior. The article concludes that McCarthy's blending of irregular conflict with a philosophy of war - empowered as it is by some of the most sumptuous of all twentieth-century American literary prose - endow this classic novel with a timeless and transcendental quality. McCarthy's unflinching representation of the anatomy of irregular conflict thus emerges not only as a searing portrayal of America's past frontier experience, but also as a powerful metaphor for understanding the endemic violence of twenty-first century insurgency in such countries as Iraq and Afghanistan.
机译：本文考察了美国作家科马克·麦卡锡（Cormac McCarthy）1985年的小说《血经》中的边境冲突，或西方的晚红。它认为麦卡锡的作品是有史以来针对非常规冲突主题的最深刻的美国文学冥想之一。这篇文章追溯了小说的文学前身和历史背景，并分析了其语言的使用，其结构性叙事以及对十九世纪中叶得克萨斯-墨西哥边境上流血和极端游击暴力的抒情描述。麦卡锡对战争哲学的发展给予了特别的关注，这与约瑟夫·德·迈斯特和约瑟夫·德·尼采的反启蒙思想有关。有人建议，麦卡锡将美国边境上的非常规冲突的经验作为一种哲学视角，来阐明战争是一种占卜形式的思想-这种方法是基于梅斯特的救赎性暴力理论和尼采的宗教崇拜相结合的。存在的战士。文章得出的结论是，麦卡锡将非常规冲突与战争哲学相结合（这是二十世纪所有美国文学散文中最华丽的力量所赋予的力量），赋予这部经典小说以永恒和超然的品质。麦卡锡坚定不移地描述了非常规冲突的结构，这不仅是对美国过去边境经验的刻板印象，而且是理解伊拉克和阿富汗等国二十一世纪叛乱的地方暴力的有力隐喻。

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