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The books discussed in Chapter 2 use Welsh hanesion to warn that too close a link with the past means that the present and the future might be forever haunted, that progress and growth can be inhibited because of the endless replay of mythic cycles, and that twentieth-century humanity could be bound forever to the patterns set for it in ancient times.
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Madeleine L’Engle, A Swiftly Tilting Planet. London: Souvenir, 1978.
Gwyn A. Williams, When Was Wales? London: Black Raven, 1985.
Jan Morris, The Matter of Wales. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984.
See Thomas Jones and Gwyn Jones, eds., The Mabinogion. London: Everyman, 1989.
C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1940.
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Filmer-Davies, K. (1996). Reconstructing the Present from the Stories of the Past. In: Fantasy Fiction and Welsh Myth. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-24991-6_3
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