This article focuses on Wilfried Steiner’s 2003 novel Der Weg nach Xanadu / The Way To Xanadu which appears to be an Austrian campus novel owing to the setting of the Austrian world of academia in its first part. Owing to its lack of local coloring, however, the Vienna-based plot of the first part does not feature a (stereo)typically ‘Austrian’ genius loci. Although this part of the text echoes features of the international campus novel tradition, it may be definitely not considered an Austrian campus novel. The second part of the novel is set in the Lake District, focuses on Coleridge’s Romantic poetry and the Doppelgänger-motif. Whereas the first part may be vaguely contextualized within the international campus novel tradition, the second part is deeply imbued with the Romantic tradition of the Künstlerroman or artist’s novel.

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威尔弗里德·施泰纳（Wilfried Steiner）的《地下世界》（Der Weg nach Xanadu）–奥地利校园小说？

本文着重于Wilfried Steiner于2003年出版的小说《 Der Weg nach Xanadu》 /《通往Xanadu的道路》，由于奥地利学术界的第一部分，这似乎是奥地利的校园小说。然而，由于缺乏局部色彩，第一部分的维也纳情节没有典型的（立体）“奥地利”天才基因座。尽管本书的这一部分呼应了国际校园小说的传统特征，但绝对不能认为它是奥地利校园小说。小说的第二部分设置在湖区，重点是科尔里奇的浪漫主义诗歌和多贝加根主题。尽管第一部分可能会在国际校园小说传统中隐约地上下文化，但第二部分却深深地融入了昆斯特勒罗曼或艺术家小说的浪漫传统。