| Summary: | The subject matter of the dissertation is the development of the Hindi psychological short story from the 1920s till the 1960s. For the purpose of this work I have divided the short story texts into three groups. I call the first one, represented by Premcand, Sudarśan, and Prabhkar the "older" period, the 1930s and 1940s - the story writing of Jainendrakumr, Ajey, Yaśpl, and Amt Ry - is seen as a transitory period, and the work of the younger authors: Rkeś, Ydav, Kamleśvar, Varm and Shn is called in accordance with the usual terms as the New Short Story - nay kahn. There is no strict border line between the nay kahn and pre-nay kahn writing. Some of the 1930s and 1940s short stories show in some respects features present in both the periods. That is why I decided to put these stories into a special group, which I call "the stories on their way from the older to the new one." The aim of the theses is a comparison of characteristic features of nay kahn and pre-nay kahn writing. I have compared the stories on the basis of the analysis and interpretation of the collection of representative Hindi texts of the period. I have researched into the subject matter and narrative structure and searched for the differences between the way of writing of the older authors and those, who started to write after the...
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