Download or read book Between Real and Ideal written by William H. McClain and published by Chapel Hill, U. of North Carolina P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Otto Ludwig, nineteenth-century German novelist and critic, originated the term poetic realism. In this excellent study, Ludwig's prose is sympathetically and thoroughly examined and a clear account of the evolution of German fiction after Romanticism is presented. Taking Ludwig's narrative works together with his literary criticism, McClain shows how the author attempted to blend the real and the ideal to reach the goal of poetic realism as he envisioned it.