This essay uses Raabe’s novel to explore the relations between the cultural discourses of Altertumskunde and Altertumswissenschaft and the roles they played in the formation of German identity, both national and personal. It focuses on three topics: the katabasis at the novel’s center; the protagonist’s, Buchius’s, archaeological collection; and the fate of his classical studies. It addresses the themes of ancestors, heirs, and literature itself in this late nineteenth-century work of German realism.

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洞穴、收藏、经典：威廉·拉贝 (Wilhelm Raabe) 的《奥德菲尔德》(Das Odfeld) 中的位移

本文利用拉贝的小说探讨了 Altertumskunde 和 Altertumswissenschaft 的文化话语之间的关系，以及它们在德国民族和个人身份认同的形成中所扮演的角色。围绕三个主题展开：小说中心的片断；主角的，Buchius 的，考古收藏；以及他古典研究的命运。它在这部 19 世纪后期的德国现实主义作品中探讨了祖先、继承人和文学本身的主题。