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St. John’s College is the oldest Anglophone institution of higher education in Western Canada. The library collection contains many items of historical interest, covering History, Anglicanism, Biblical Studies, and French-Canadian and English Literature.

In addtion to providing an inviting space for scholarly study, St. John's Library is equipped wtih a number desktop workstations and offers printing, scanning, and photocopy services. As a member of the university library system, patrons can request and return materials from any Manitoba Libraries location. Located on the third floor of St. John's College, the library has a reputation for being a bright, quiet, area for study with convenient access to both Cafe 101 and The Daily Bread Cafe.

We are here to serve you - feel free to contact any member of our friendly staff with questions regarding library services. Visit our research help page to browse subject guides for the collection's topical concentrations, view information pertaining to citation guidelines, or to contact a subject liason for assistance.

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St. John's College Library, Rm 322
University of Manitoba
92 Dysart Rd
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Canada R3T 2M5

Circulation desk:

Phone: 204.474.8542
Fax: 204.474.7614

Featured Reference Collections

Encyclopedia of Religion by Lindsay Jones
Call Number: BL 31 E46 2005
ISBN: 0028657330
Publication Date: 2004-12-17

Among Library Journal's selections of the most important reference works of the millennium - with the Encyclopedia Judaica and the New Catholic Encyclopedia - Mircea Eliade's Encyclopedia of Religion won the American Library Associations' Dartmouth Medal in 1988 and is widely regarded as the standard reference work in the field. This second edition, which is intended to reflect both changes in academia and in the world since 1987, will include almost all of the 2750 original entries - many heavily updated - as well as approximately 600 (1.2M words) entirely new articles. Preserving the best of Eliade's cross-cultural approach while emphasizing religion's role within everyday life and as a unique experience from culture to culture, this new edition will be the definitive work in the field for the 21st century. An international team of scholars and contributors have reviewed, revised and added to every word of a classic work to make it relevant to the questions and interests of readers, whether students, specialists, or laypersons. The result is an essential purchase for libraries of all kinds. Every article from the first edition was evaluated by our board of scholars. of study are given their own entries. New composite entries present overarching themes - for example, gender and religion, politics and religion - with each article within the composite covering a different religious tradition. Many of the reprinted articles from the first-edition have updated bibliographies. This is an indispensable resource for any school with a department or programme in religious studies. Additionally, articles support the curriculum and general research in history, gender studies, language and literature, music, the visual arts, history, politics, ecology, health and medicine, law, sociology and anthropology. Three Colour inserts serve as pictorial essays illuminating themes such as pilgrimage, prayer, healing, and how these concepts are displayed in various religions throughout the world. Illustrations go beyond the typical stock imagery and present images of authentic value not readily available elsewhere.
The Brill Dictionary of Religion by Kocku von Stuckrad
Call Number: BL 31 M4813 2006
ISBN: 9004124292
Publication Date: 2006

impressively comprehensive Brill Dictionary of Religion addresses religion as an element of daily life and public discourse. Richly illustrated and with more than 500 entries, the dictionary is a multi-media reference source on the many and various forms of religious commitment. It is unusual in that it not only addresses the different theologies and doctrinal declarations of the official institutionalized religions but it also gives equal weight and consideration to a multiplicity of other religious phenomena.
People perceive and express religious experiences in many different ways: through dance, sensuality, in relations between sexes and in compassion at death. Religions help determine how people form and perceive their identity as part of a social group. The diverse effects of religions can also be perceived in the environment, society and the public sphere. The Brill Dictionary of Religion helps map out and define the networks and connections created by various religions in contemporary societies, and provides models for understanding these complex phenomena.
The Cambridge History of Christianity by Margaret M. Mitchell (Editor); Frances M. Young (Editor); K. Scott Bowie (Editor)
Call Number: BR 141 .C36 2006
ISBN: 9780521812399
Publication Date: 2006

The first of the nine volume Cambridge History of Christianity series, Origins to Constantine provides a comprehensive overview of the essential events, persons, places and issues involved in the emergence of the Christian religion in the Mediterranean world in the first three centuries. Over thirty essays written by scholarly experts trace this dynamic history from the time of Jesus through to the rise of Imperial Christianity in the fourth century. It provides thoughtful and well-documented analyses of the diverse forms of Christian community, identity and practice that arose within decades of Jesus's death, and which through missionary efforts were soon implanted throughout the Roman Empire. Origins to Constantine examines the distinctive characteristics of Christian groups in each geographical region up to the end of the third century, while also exploring the development of the institutional forms, intellectual practices and theological formulations that would mark Christian history in subsequent centuries.
The Wesleyan Bible Commentary by Charles W. Carter (ed.)
Call Number: BS 491.2 W4 1964
Publication Date: 1964-1969
Word Biblical Commentary by David Allan Hubbard; Glenn W. Barker 1920-1984.; Robert A Guelich; John Goldingay; John E Hartley
Call Number: BS 491.2 W67 1982
Publication Date: 1982

The Word Biblical Commentary delivers the best in biblical scholarship, from the leading scholars of our day who share a commitment to Scripture as divine revelation. This series emphasizes a thorough analysis of textual, linguistic, structural, and theological evidence. The result is judicious and balanced insight into the meanings of the text in the framework of biblical theology. These widely acclaimed commentaries serve as exceptional resources for the professional theologian and instructor, the seminary or university student, the working minister, and everyone concerned with building theological understanding from a solid base of biblical scholarship.
The Oxford History of Anglicanism by Anthony Milton (Editor)
Call Number: BX 5005 .O975 2017
ISBN: 9780199639731
Publication Date: 2017-04-02

The Oxford History of Anglicanism is a major new and unprecedented international study of the identity and historical influence of one of the world's largest versions of Christianity. This global study of Anglicanism from the sixteenth century looks at how was Anglican identity constructed andcontested at various periods since the sixteenth century; and what was its historical influence during the past six centuries. It explores not just the ecclesiastical and theological aspects of global Anglicanism, but also the political, social, economic, and cultural influences of this form ofChristianity that has been historically significant in western culture, and a burgeoning force in non-western societies today. The chapters are written by international experts in their various historical fields which includes the most recent research in their areas, as well as original research.The series forms an invaluable reference for both scholars and interested non-specialists. Volume one of The Oxford History of Anglicanism examines a period when the nature of "Anglicanism" was still heavily contested. Rather than merely tracing the emergence of trends that we associate with later Anglicanism, the contributors instead discuss the fluid and contested nature of the Churchof England's religious identity in these years, and the different claims to what should count as "Anglican" orthodoxy. After the introduction and narrative chapters explain the historical background, individual chapters then analyse different understandings of the early church and church history;variant readings of the meaning of the royal supremacy, the role of bishops and canon law, and cathedrals; the very diverse experiences of religion in parishes, styles of worship and piety, church decoration, and Bible usage; and the competing claims to "Anglican" orthodoxy of puritanism,"avant-garde conformity" and Laudianism. Also analysed are arguments over the Church of England's confessional identity and its links with the foreign Reformed Churches, and the alternative models provided by English Protestant activities in Ireland, Scotland and North America. The reforms of the1640s and 1650s are included in their own right, and the volume concludes that the shape of the Restoration that emerged was far from inevitable, or expressive of a settled 'Anglican' identity.

Please check the New Materials section for a complete list of recently added books to our library.

Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament, Volume XVI by Holger Gzella (Editor); Mark E. Biddle (Translator)
Call Number: BS 440 B5713 v. 16
ISBN: 0802872816
Publication Date: 2018

Volume XVI concludes the monumental, critically acclaimed Theological Dictionary of the Old Testament with an Aramaic dictionary. This latest and last TDOT volume incorporates nearly the complete lexicon of Biblical Aramaic as well as a major portion of the theologically, culturally, and historically relevant terms in other ancient Aramaic writings. Each article provides information on the term's meaning and usage, is fully annotated, and contains a bibliography with cross-references to the entire TDOT series. Further enhancing this volume are an introductory overview of the history of Aramaic and a comparative grammatical outline of ancient Aramaic at the end of the book.
Bite Me!: Musings on Monsters and Mayhem by Rosenblatt, Joe
Call Number: PS 8535 .O81 B58 2019
ISBN: 9780889844247
Publication Date: 2019

A collection of poems and musings explore the bizarre side of Mother Nature's handiwork, from the depths of the ocean to the wilds of tropical rainforest, to the cozy hearth of the domesticated housecat. The idiosyncratic observations and provocative musings illuminate an unseen world of creatures both real and imagined.
Only seemly by Birchard, Guy
Call Number: PS 8553 .I73 O55 2018
ISBN: 9781897141885
Publication Date: 2018

Only Seemly, codicil to Hecatomb, comprises diverse matters of threshold consciousness, profane Moments, Bright or Stolen, "re-enacted desire" recouped with scalpel, magnifying glass, tweezers: what you alone see, or sense, that no one else does.
All the Wrong Places: a Novel by Fielding, Joy
Call Number: PS 8561 .I28 A75 2019
ISBN: 9780385693028
Publication Date: 2019

Four women--friends, family, rivals--turn to online dating for companionship, only to run afoul of a tech-savvy killer using an app to target his victims in this thriller from New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding. A husband's death, a difficult divorce, a brutal dumping, dissatisfaction with a boring relationship: for various reasons, four women turn to the app "Mr. Right Now," hoping to right-swipe their way to love and happiness. Paige and Heather are cousins, locked in a lifelong rivalry that recently culminated in Heather taking Paige's boyfriend for herself, although now Heather isn't quite sure she wants him. Paige's mother, Joan, is trying to get back on her feet after the death of the love of her life two years ago. And Paige's longtime friend, Chloe, is trying to replace an abusive ex-husband as soon as the divorce papers are signed. Together, the women are navigating the choppy waters of online dating, until one of them unwittingly makes a date with a killer, starting the clock on a race to save her life. New York Times bestselling author Joy Fielding has written a complex, electrifying thriller about friendship, jealousy and passion--a deadly combination.
Magnetic Equator by Kaie Kellough
Call Number: PS 8571 .E58643 M34 2019
ISBN: 9780771043116
Publication Date: 2019

The poems in Kaie Kellough's third collection are inhabited by migration and distance. They are ghosts that issue from suburban oblivion. They are released from their non-existence by suicides in the back seats of sedans. They wander, and seek a language for their wandering. The words they find are often made of smoke. They drift between North and South America looking for their ancestry in the Amazon Rainforest, the Atlantic Ocean, and the prairies, foothills, and badlands of Western Canada. They haunt the hostile suburbs of Calgary and they finally come to rest in the snowed-in, bricked-in boroughs of Montreal. They find their voice in the natural world and in the works of Caribbean and Canadian novelists and poets. They reassemble passages about migration, about seed catalogues, about origins, about finding a way in the world, about black ships sailing across to land, and this act of appropriation is evidence of two things- a struggle to explain a state of being hemisphered, of being present here while carrying a heartbeat from elsewhere, and a mapping of the distances travelled.
This Shall Be a House of Peace by Phil Halton
Call Number: PS 8615 .A396 T55 2019
ISBN: 9781459742239
Publication Date: 2019

After the collapse of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government, a mullah finds himself doing anything to protect his students. Chaos reigns in the wake of the collapse of Afghanistan's Soviet-backed government. In the rural, warlord-ruled south, a student is badly beaten at a checkpoint run by bandits. His teacher, who leads a madrassa for orphans left behind by Afghanistan's civil war, leads his students back to the checkpoint and forces the bandits out. His actions set in motion a chain of events that will change the balance of power in his country and send shock waves through history. Amid villagers seeking protection and warlords seeking power, the Mullah's influence grows. Against the backdrop of anarchy dominated by armed factions, he devotes himself to building a house of peace with his students -- or, as they are called in Pashto, taliban. Part intrigue, part war narrative, and part historical drama, This Shall Be a House of Peace charts their breathtaking ambition, transformation, and rise to power.

Anglican & Episcopal History (88.2 June 2019)

Elaine Breslaw "Conflicting Views in Colonial Maryland's Anglican Population: Enlightenment vs. Toleration of Catholics"

John Rawlinson "The Reconciliation of a Penitent: the Development of a Rite"

John William Klein "Susanna Hopton and Mary Astell: Two Women Spiritual Writers Among the English Nonjurors"

J. Barrington Bates "Sturdy Broad Church on the Gulf Coast: Trinity Church, Galveston"

"Consecration and Ascension: A Double Celebration at Trinity Church, Wall Street"

Book Reviews

Arc Poetry Magazine (Spring 2019)

Doyali Islam "On Recovery"

Sadiqa De Meijer "The Imaging Department"

Medrie Purdham "The Thimble's Bucket List"

Heather Birrell "Snow Day Poem"

Sadiqu De Meijer "O, Death"

Sophie Anne Edwards "Interview with a spawning salmon on the kagawong river"

Kate Marshall Flaherty "Frank Slide"

Medrie Purdham "This Is What Happens"

Angeline Schellenberg "Dwelling"

Emily Vanderploeg "Loose Jewels"

Clea Young "Postpartum"

Ian Williams "Word Problems"

David Hawkins "Wading Through the Algal Bllom"

Jan Conn "L'Avenir"

Erin Emily Ann Vance "Hagiography of Owls"

Gillian Sze "Seize"

Pearl Pirie "by volume most of the world is sky to leap into"

David Hallihan and Chelene Knight from "a lion in the trees"

Geoff Pevlion "Scravel Day of the Fish"

Yilin WAng "Where are you and your fish really from?"

Erin Moure "Odiama"

Tim Lilburn "Deliverance from Error"

Jean Van Loon "Turning Leaves"

John Steffler "Two Poems"

Maureen Hynes "High Water Mark"

Dave Margoshes "Clouds"

Ron Riekki "oigun"

Phil Hall "A New Book"

Trish Salah "Guileless"

Samantha Tetangco "This is Not the Jesus Year"

Rowan Lynam "Wicca Gospel"

Laura Mayron "La Llorona, or: Scientific Name for Queer Womanhood"

Dominik Parisien "The body calls for guests"

Daniel Scott Tysdal "Bi-Lungual"

Derek Beaulieu "Visual poem"

In Translation

Catherine Cobham "Introduction Note"

Ghayath Almadhoun "How Hope Became Green"

How Poems Work

Chelene Knight "Patricia Smith's 'Only Everything I Own'"

Patricia Smith "Only Everything I Own"

Essays

David Austin "Poetry in Destitute Times"

Dominique Bernier-Cormier "Partners in Crime: Sabotaging English with Klara du Plessis"

Reviews

Visual Art

Sara Cwynar

Biblical Research (Volume 62; 2017)

Eric F. Mason "Editor's Note"

Esther Menn "A Tribute to Professor Ralph W. Klein: Scholar, Text Critic, and Curator"

Steed Vernyl Davidson "Finding Josiah in Isaiah: Thinking on a Superscription about the Absence of a King"

Lowell K. Handy "Josiah and the History of the World"

Jeffrey Stackert "'This is My Blood of the Covenant': The Markan Last Supper and the Elohistic Horeb Narrative"

Margaret M. Mitchell "Origen and the Text-Critical Dilemma: An Illustrration from One of His Newly Discovered Greek Homilies on the Psalms"

Ralph W. Klein "New Testament Manuscript 1424 and Its Homecoming"

Canadian Dimension (52.4 Winter 2019)

Judith Marshall "CD Paragraph: Wilson-Raybould , thrown under the bus for corporate interests"

This Dimension

Editorial "Injustice at Unis'ot'en"

Yves Engler "Raising the Flag: No golden era in Canada's foreign policy"

Andre Frappier "Quebec Communique: Francois Legault, an environmentally unfriendly dealmaker"

Michal Rozworski "The Economy: Canada needs a Green New Deal"

Andrea Levy "Ecoside: Polymer perversity"

Chris Dixon "Writing With Movements: Training for movements"

Trevor Harrison "Morbid symptoms: Alberta's Yellow Vest Movement"

Alan Freeman "Venezuela and the setbacks of the Latin American Left: What does it all mean?: Interview with Steve Ellner"

Rosemary Hnatiuk "Crisis in Venezuela"

Pam Palmater "RCMP invasion of Wet'suwet'en Nation territory breaches Canada's 'rule of law'"

Dave Bleakney and Aziz Choudry "Lessons in labour struggle: From the margins to the centre"

15 Best Books of 2018

John-Henry Harter "The Popular Front: Colonization, resistance and popular culture"

Rick Hesch "Maria Dunn: Telling peoples' stories through song"

Reg Whitaker "Review: Vividly imagined Soviet-Canadian novel with a personal twist; LAST NIGHT OF THE WORLD"

Edwin Janzen "Review: The other Winnipeg: Rooster Town: the History of an Urban Metis Community, 1901-1960, by Evelyn Peters, Mattheew Stock and Afrian Werner, and Stolen City: Racial Capitalism and the Making of Winnipeg by Owen Toews"

CNQ/Canadian Notes and Queries (No. 104 Spring 2019)

The Dusty Bookcase

Poetry (2 contributors)

Features (7 contributors)

Rereading

The North Wing

Fiction

Used and Rare

Reviews (7 contributors)

Exhumations

Canadian Poetry (No. 83, Fall/Winter 2018)

Preface: "Rummagings 20: A.G. Bailey among the Modernists"

Eric Schmaltz "'my body of bliss': Judith Copithorne's Concrete Poetry in the 1960s and 1970s"

Shane Neilson "Regionalisms 1.0, 2.0. 3.0 and Beyond: Reading Maritime Poetry Anthologies Backwards"

Documents: "'So often I look up at you and tell you things, and you listen!": The Correspondence of Louise Morey Bowman and Amy Lowell" edited and with an Introduction by Laura Cameron

Reviews

Brian Trehaearne "Re Making"

Frank Davey "Not the Story of Canadian Literature"

Brooke Pratt "Placing History"

Christian Riegel "World Making: Poetry and Landscape of the Prairies"

Alex Kizuk "'The whole of the gallant rescue:' The Letters of E.J. Pratt"

Canadian Verse 2 (vol. 42 iss. 1 Summer 2019)

Estuaire (numero 176 "Geographies")

Liminaires: Lignes de fuite

Poemes

Catherine Morency "Tu vas la fermer"

Hector Ruiz "Les gens de Ghent"

Mimi Haddam "Un verger de craintes s'echappe par l'echancrure"

Philippe Chagnon "Le bord de mes larmes"

Clara Lamy "Une facon de faire silence"

Sebastien Chabot et Laurence Veilleux "Berceuses"

Jean-Sebastien Huot "Eclisse"

Virginie Chaloux-Gendron "La rigeuer de l'informe"

Martin Belanger "Assez"

Jonathan Lemire "Cantique de Lazare"

Andreane Frenette-Vallieres "Poemes d'un non-retour"

Pierre Nepveu "Retour des Plaines"

Traductions

Alice Notley "La nuit les etats"

"Poetique de la desobeissance"

Plances

Critiques

Zea Beaulieu-April "Les possibles marginaux"

Monique Deland "L'ecriture au secours d'un monde brise"

"Assis carre dans le decor"

Roxane Nadeau "Tue-moi/ Si j'oublie"

"La chaleur des replis"

Francois Rioux "Des rivieres magiques"

"Se rejouir, des fois"

Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies (No. 86-Juin 2019)

Paul-Andre Linteau, Yves Frenette, et Francoise Le Jeune "L'histoire de l'immigration francaise au Canada au debut du XXe siecle : bilan et perspectives"

Annelise Rodriguo "Le refugie au Canada durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale: la creation anglo-americaine d'une categorie migratoire?"

Stavroula Pabst "One (Wo)man's history?: Immigration, Advertisement and Consumption Patterns in the Greek Community of Montreal 1960s-1970s"

Magnus Fischer "Kreol servi deor? Vers une description synchronique et ideolinguistique du creole mauricien parle en situation diasporique au Canada"

Chantal Arlettaz "Mobilite geographique et creativite: le parcours singulier de deux romancieres originaires de la Prairie canadienne, Margaret Laurence (1926-1987) et Nancy Huston (1953-)"

Anne-Sophie Letessier "Poetics of Displacement in Margaret Atwood's The Journals of Susanna Moodie (1970)"

Hanna Nohe "Ecrire et transmettre l'experience de l'arrivee dans une nouvelle culture. Caracteristiques esthetiques et narratives dans Les maisons de cristal (1990) d'Annick Perrot-Bishop et Ru (2009) de Kim Thuy"

Benoit Delerue "La construction historique du paradigme canadien a la croisee d'influences internes et externes"

Antoine Burgard "Une nouvelle vie dans un nouveau pays: Trajectroies d'orphelins de la Shoah vers le Canada (1947-1952)"

Recensions

Event: Poetry and Prose (Vol. 48 Iss. 1)

Creative Non-Fiction Contest (4 contributors)

Poetry (14 contributors)

Fiction (3 contributors)

Non-Fiction (1 contributor)

Reviews (9 contributors)

Exile: The Literary Quarterly (Vol. 42 no. 3)

Janet Somerville "The Sudden Emergence of a Young Writer: Morley Callaghan: Found Letters to Ernest Hemingway"

Ray Ellenwood "Riopelle and Indigenous Art"

Leanne Milech "The Light in the Closet"

Michael Fraser "Daybreakers"

Edward Brown "Remember Me"

Leon Rooke "The Viewing"

Roger Greenwald "Song of Songs"

Priscila Uppal "Elevator Shoes"

Michael Callaghan "The Adrenaline of Surprise"

Lee Ka-Sing "Cultural Chop Shui"

Caitlin Cronenberg and David Cronenberg "Seeing David Cronenberg"

George Elliott Clarke Introduces Giovanna Riccio

Stephanie Rayner "The Child Book" (Photographs by Rob Davidson)

Faith and Philosophy (Volume 36 Number 2 April 2019)

Jc Beall and Jared Henderson "A Neglected Quo Solution to the Fundamental Problem of Christology"

Joseph Jedwab and John A. Keller "Paraphrase and the Doctrine of the Trinity"

Robert C. Roberts "Joys: A Brief Moral and Christian Geography"

Jeroen de Ridder "Against Quasi-Fideism"

Jonathan Curtis Rutledge "Perspectival Skeptical Theism"

Reviews:

Craig Warmke "Idealism: New Essays on Metaphysics (Tyron Goldschmidt and Kenneth L. Pearce, eds.)"

Matthew A. Benton "A Grotesque in the Garden (Hud Huson)"

Andrew M. Bailey "Maximal God: A New Defence of Perfect Being Theism (Yujin Nagasawa)"

Michelle Panchuk "The Hiddenness of God (Michael C. Rea)"

Jordan Wssling "The Christian Idea of God: A Philosophical Foundation For Faith (Keith Ward)"

Geez: Contemplative Cultural Resistance (Spring 2019 Issue No. 52)

Poetry (17 contributors)

Prose (15 contributors)

Grain (Vol. 46 No. 5 Summer 2019)

Lisa Bird-Wilson "Many Voices"

Tenille K. Campbell "Poetic Connections"

Featured Artist: Joi T. Arcand

Poetry

jaye simpson "Two Poems"

Danielle Boissoneau "Urban NDN Woes"

waaseyaa'sin Christine Sy "Two Poems"

Killa Ch'aska "Two Poems"

Karrie Auger "Two Poems"

Ashley Hynd "Things my mother has taught me"

Katjli "Seagulls & Huskies"

Doreen Pasapa "Pa'gon Nut"

Randy Lundy "In Memory of J.W."

Daniel David Moses "How a Turtle Rattles"

Sita Rani "Modern Day Indian"

Daniel Poitras "Beard Poem (When Asked If I Could Shave)

Cooper Skjeie "Silence"

Michelle Poirier Brown "Lasts"

Janet Rogers "We Get It"

D.A. Lockhart "Through the Grey Survivors Sing of Amimi"

Warren Cariou "Two Poems"

Tawahum Bige "What We Need"

Francine Cunningham "Two Poems"

Rita Bouvier "Two Poems"

Louise Bernice Halfe "Two Poems"

Fiction

Jessica Johns "Bad Cree"

Michela Carriere "The Moth and the Fox"

Alicia Marie Lawrence "Star Song"

Amanda Peters "Ashes"

Mika Lafond "La Maudite Femme"

Kung Jaadee "Xilee Kuyaada"

Jenny Ferguson "The Pleiades Cluster"

NonFiction

Dexter Lee "Running With the Horses"

Joshua Whitehead "My Auntie is a Wolverine"

John McDonald "The Verdict"

Conor Kerr "Forty-Wing Salute"

Michelle Porter "Fireweed"

les ecrits (153 automne 2018)

Recits (3 contributors)

Poemes (10 contributors)

Le Laboratoire De L'Ecrivain (7 contributors)

Chroniques (3 contributors)

Montreal Review of Books (Vol. 22 No. 3 Summer 2019)

Near Eastern Archaeology (Vol. 81 Issue 4 December 2018)

Juan Jesus Padilla Fernandez, Linda Chapon, and Francisco Contreras Cortes "Reuse and Recycling in the Temple of Millions of Years of Thutmosis III (Luxor, Egypt): Archaeological Evidence of a Pottery Workshop"

Mahmoud A. Emam and Ehab Abd el-Zaher "New Fragments of 'Nectanebo the Falcon' from the Temple of Behbeit el-Hagar"

Salah Hussein Al-Houdalieh "Khirbet el-Lauz Revisited: Lessons from the Renewed Destruction of a Vulnerable Heritage Site"

Ibrahim Abu Aemar "Archaeological Excavations at Khirbet Beit Bassa, Palestine"

Katharina Streit, Lyndelle Webster, Vanessa Becker, Ann-Kathrin Jeske, Hadas Misgav, and Felix Hoffmayer "Between Destruction and Diplomacy in Canaan: The Austrian-Israeli Expedition to Tel Lachish"

Elad Liraz "A Second Cult Room at the Lachish Gate?"

Avraham Faust "Pigs in Space (and Time): Pork Consumption and Identity Negotiations in the Late Bronze and Iron Ages of Ancient Israel"

The New Quarterly (Vol. 150)

Non Fiction (2 contributors)

Poetry (7 contributors)

Word and Image (2 contributors)

Edna Staebler Shortlist Essay (2 contributors)

Fiction (11 contributors)

Soundings

Writer At Large

Postscript

The Newfoundland Quarterly (Vol. 112 no. 1; Summer 2019)
Features

Jenn Thornhill Verma "Accordion to Don"

Play us a Song, You're the Banjo Man

Bridget O'Connell "Newfoundland Fiddle Music in the 21st Century"

Peace-A-Chord

Richard Simas "The Enigma of Art Stoyles' Portuguese Waltzes"

Blair Temple "What Lies Beneath: Water Street Archeology"

Richard Ellis "Anderson Town"

Marie Stamp "Lady Fitzgerald of Fogo"

Fred Armstrong "How Long is God's Tail?"

Artist Portfolios: Kelsey Street/Daniel Rumbolt/Caroline Clarke

Book Reviews

Jennifer J. Connor and Katherine Side "The Grenfell Medical Mission and American Support in Newfoundland and Labrador, 19802-1940s"

Overland (Iss. 234 Autumn 2018)

Features (7 contributors)

Fiction (7 contributors)

Poetry (6 contributors)

Artwork

Prairie Fire (Vol. 40 no. 2)

Lisa Moore "Judge's Notes" (Winners of the 2018 Fiction Contest)

Kat Cameron "Dancing the Requiem"

Chris Graham-Rombough "The Bend"

Gabriel Castilloux Calderon "Ishkode"

Rebecca Morris "Body of Water"

Jordan Abel "Judge's Notes" (Winners of the 2018 Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award Contest)

Jim Johnstone "Identity as an Infinity Mirror"

Michael Fraser "Photographer"

Joanne Epp "in the dome car"

Cara Violini "Burnout"

Myrna Kostash "Judge's Notes" (Winners fo the 2018 Creative Non-Fiction Contest)

Dee Hobsbawm-Smith "Wiebo's Way"

Kerry Ryan "Dia de los Muertos"

Scott Randall "Adult Lane Swim"

Alison Frost "Mother's Milk"

Kenneth McRobbie "Three Poems"

Sandra Stechisen "Two Poems"

Tara Borin "Two Poems"

Robert Maclean "Tsukiko"

Presence Francophone (no. 91)

Kodjo Attikpoe et Josias Semujanga "Presentation"

Josias Semujanga "La metaphore de l'oeuvre impossible dans le roman francophone"

Cheikh Mouhamadou Soumoune Diop "Voix narratives et transfigurations de l'ecrivain dans le roman francophone"

Adama Togola "La figuration de l'ecriture dans quelques romans africains contemporains"

Desire Nyela "La lecon de Ouologuem ou le portrait de l'artistie en 'pisse-copie, negre d'ecrivains celebres'"

Adama Coulibaly "Conte romanesque, chant-roman: postures de la figure auctoriale chez Maurice Bandaman et Werewere Liking"

Justin Bisanswa "Dialectique de al figuration: Ken Bugul au miroir de son oeuvre"

Morgan Faulkner "Formes et fonctions du metatexte dans Le cavalier et son ombre de Boubacar Boris Diop"

Olga Hel-Bongo "La figuration de l'art dans les romans de V.Y. Mudimbe"

Christiane Ndiaye "Ecrire pour qui? Enquete sur la figure du lecteur dans l'oeuvre de Moussa Konate"

Vincent Simedoh "Figure de l'ecrivain chez Sami Tchak: Determinisme, fantasme et mythe"

Kodjo Attikpoe "l'objet litteraire: le livre et le personnage lecteur dans l'oeuvre de Sami Tchak"

Christian Uwe "Metamorphoses de l'ecrivain dans le roman francophone subsaharan"

Revue Biblique (No. 2 Avril 2019)

Etienne Nodet, O.P. "Edom, c'est l'Idumee! Le rejet litteraire d'Edom hors de Juda"

Erasmus Gass ",,Dies war das Erbteil des Stammes der Sohne Juda" (Jos 15,20). Sprachliche Brucken vom Numeri-zum Josuabach"

Michal Marciak "Idumea and the Idumeans in Josephus' Retelling of the Bible"

Antony Perrot "Il fit de la boue avec sa salive (Jn 9,6): nouvelle perspective sur un rituel enigmatique"

Marc Rastoin, S.J. "Paul 'apotre' dans les Actes )Ac 14,4.14) et l'ambition ecclesiologique de Luc"

israel Finkelstein and Assaf Kleiman "The Archaeology of the Days of Baasha?"

Recensions

Revue De Qumran (numero 113 tome 31 Juin 2019)

Eibert Tigchelaar "Lamentations 4:21-22 as Another Word of Consolation in 4Q176"

Michael Girardin "Dans le quotidien du collecteur: l'impot romain d'apres l'archive de Murabba'at"

Eshbal Ratson "4Q208: A New Reconstruction and Its Implications on the Evolution of the Astronomical Book"

Torlief Elgvin and Michael Langlois "Looking Back: )More) Dead Sea Scrolls Forgeries in the Schoyen Collection"

Notes

Recensions

Word & World (Vol. 39 No. 2 Spring 2019)

Granquist, Mark "Walls, Exiles, and Migrations"

Britta Meiers Carlson "Taking Down the Walls That Border Our Churches"

Jennifer Hornyak Wojciechowski "New Resources on Religion and Immigrants to Contemporary America"

Clint Schnekloth "Refugee Resettlement and New Sanctuary in Arkansas: A Case Study"

Mark Granquist "The Impact of Immigration on American Christianity"

Timothy Senapatiratne and Brien Aadland "A Contemporary Theology of Sanctuary as It Relates to Undocumented and Displaced People"

Rufus Kudee "Ministering to Immigrant and Refugee Families: A Case Study on Liberian Refugees in Minnesota"

Courtney Wilder "Revelation and Testimony in the Age of #MeToo and #ChurchToo"

The St. John's College Library is pleased to feature a wide array of titles pertaining to the work and legacy of the Canadian icon. We are proud to offer a large number of her published works of fiction as well as criticism and feature an abundant list of secondary sources about her work.

A few selections...

The Handmaid's Tale

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 H36 1998

ISBN: 0770428207

Publication Date: 1998 (1986)

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....
Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 A82 1996

ISBN: 0385490445

Publication Date: 1997-10-13

Now a 6-part Netflix original mini-series: in Alias Grace, the bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale takes readers into the life of one of the most notorious women of the nineteenth century. It's 1843, and Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer and his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders. An up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Captivating and disturbing, Alias Grace showcases bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author Margaret Atwood at the peak of her powers.
The Heart Goes Last

Call Number: PS 8551.T97 H43 2015

ISBN: 9780771009112

Publication Date: 2015

In the world of the near future, who will control women's bodies?
Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are only valued if their ovaries are viable.
Offred can remember the days before, when she lived and made love with her husband Luke; when she played with and protected her daughter; when she had a job, money of her own, and access to knowledge. But all of that is gone now....
In Other Worlds: SF and the Human Imagination by Margaret Atwood

Call Number: PN 3433.5 A89 2011

ISBN: 9780771008481

Publication Date: 2011

At a time when the borders between literary genres are increasingly porous, Margaret Atwood maps the richly fertile crosscurrents of speculative and science fiction, slipstream, utopias and dystopias, and fantasy, and muses on their roots in the age-old human impulse to imagine new worlds. She shares the evolution of her personal fascination with this branch of literature, from her days as a child inventing a race of flying superhero rabbits, to her graduate study of the Victorian ancestors of SF to her appreciations of such influential writers as Marge Piercy, Rider Haggard, Ursula K. LeGuin, Kazuo Ishiguro, Aldous Huxley, and Jonathan Swift. As humorous and charming as it is insightful and provocative, In Other Worlds brilliantly illuminates “the wilder storms on the wilder seas of invention.”
Writing with Intent: Essays, Reviews, Personal Prose, 1983-2005 by Margaret Atwood

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 A16 2005

ISBN: 0786715359

Publication Date: 2005

From one of the world's most passionately engaged literary citizens comes Writing with Intent, the largest collection to date of Margaret Atwood's nonfiction, ranging from 1983 to 2005. Composed of autobiographical essays, cultural commentary, book reviews, and introductory pieces written for great works of literature, this is the award-winning author's first book-length nonfiction publication in twenty years. Arranged chronologically, these writings display the development of Atwood's worldview as the world around her changes. Included are the Booker Prize#150;winning author's reviews of books by John Updike, Italo Calvino, Toni Morrison, and others, as well as essays in which she remembers herself reading Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse at age nineteen, and discusses the influence of George Orwell's 1984 on the writing of The Handmaid's Tale. Atwood's New York Times Book Review piece that helped make Orhan Pamuk's Snow a bestseller can be found here, as well as a look back on a family trip to Afghanistan just before the Soviet invasion, and her "Letter to America," written after September 11, 2001. The insightful and memorable pieces in this book serve as a testament to Atwood's career, reminding readers why she is one of the most esteemed writers of our time.
Negotiating with the Dead: a Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 Z578 2002

ISBN: 0521662605

Publication Date: 2002

What is the role of the writer? Prophet? High Priest of Art? Court Jester? Or witness to the real world? Looking back on her own childhood and writing career, Margaret Atwood examines the metaphors which writers of fiction and poetry have used to explain - or excuse! - their activities, looking at what costumes they have assumed, what roles they have chosen to play. In her final chapter she takes up the challenge of the title: if a writer is to be seen as 'gifted', who is doing the giving and what are the terms of the gift? Margaret Atwood's wide reference to other writers is balanced by anecdotes from her own experiences, both in Canada and on the international scene. The lightness of her touch is underlined by a seriousness about the purpose and the pleasures of writing, and by a deep familiarity with the myths and traditions of Western literature.
Margaret Atwood by Reingard M. Nischik

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 Z762 2002

ISBN: 1571132694

Publication Date: 2002

Novelist, poet, cultural critic, Margaret Atwood is one of the most fascinating, versatile, and productive authors of our time, a superb writer in any genre she chooses to tackle. This book was prepared on the occasion of Atwood's sixtieth birthday in November 1999. Its first aim is therefore to take stock of Atwood's multifarious works and international impact at the height of her creative powers. Secondly, the book serves as a wide-ranging introduction to the writer and her works. Fifteen informative articles written specifically for this volume by Atwood specialists from Canada, the USA, the UK, Germany, and France treat her life and status, her works (up-to-date survey articles on Atwood's novels, short fiction, poetry, and literary and cultural criticism), and important approaches to her works (from the standpoints of gender politics, mythology, ecology, popular culture, constructivism, and Canadian nationalism). A final section on creativity, transmission, and reception includes an interview with Atwood on creativity, statements by some of Atwood's important transmitters, including publishers, editors, literary agents, and translators, and some 15 statements by Atwood's fellow writers, in which they explore her importance for them. A number of photographs of Atwood, several cartoonsdrawn by and about her, an up-to-date bibliography of works by and about her, and an index round out the volume. Reingard M. Nischik is Professor of American literature at the University of Konstanz, Germany.
The Cambridge Companion to Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells (Editor)

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 Z565 2006

ISBN: 0521548519

Publication Date: 2006

Margaret Atwood's international celebrity has given a new visibility to Canadian literature in English. This Companion provides a comprehensive critical account of Atwood's writing across the wide range of genres within which she has worked for the past forty years, while paying attention to her Canadian cultural context and the multiple dimensions of her celebrity. The main concern is with Atwood the writer, but there is also Atwood the media star and public performer, cultural critic, environmentalist and human rights spokeswoman, social and political satirist, and mythmaker. This immensely varied profile is addressed in a series of chapters which cover biographical, textual, and contextual issues. The Introduction contains an analysis of dominant trends in Atwood criticism since the 1970s, while the essays by twelve leading international Atwood critics represent the wide range of different perspectives in current Atwood scholarship.
Margaret Atwood by Coral Ann Howells

Call Number: PS 8551 T97 Z59 2005

ISBN: 1403922012

Publication Date: 2005

This introduction covers Atwood's work from the end of the 1960s to the present, drawing out her recurring themes of Canadian identity and the wilderness, the representation of women and female bodies, and history and its narration. Winner of the Margaret Atwood Society Best Book in 1997, the second edition is thoroughly revised and updated. It includes new chapters covering Atwood's recent novels Alias Grace, The Blind Assassin, and Oryx and Crake, and her 2002 book on writing Negotiating with the Dead.

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