St. John's College Library: General Information

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. 

Mailing address:

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

 Anglican & Episcopal History (87.4 December 2018)

     Lawrence N. Crumb   "Episcopal Ecumenism: Attempts the Failed"

     Warren C. Platt   "The Church of San Salvatore, Broome Street, and the Rise of Italian Episcopalianism in New York City"

     J. Barrington Bates   "The Pearl of Pearl Street: St. Stephen's Church"

     J. Michael Utzinger   "Board Meeting Minutes, Historical Society of the Episcopal Church"

     Book reviews

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"

CNQ/Canadian Notes and Queries (No. 103 Fall 2018)

     The Dusty Bookcase

     Poetry (2 contributors)

     Features (15 contributors)

     Rereading

     The North Wing

     Fiction

     Used and Rare

     Reviews (7 contributors)

     Exhumations

Canadian Poetry 2 (vol. 41 iss. 3 Winter 2019)

Estuaire (numero 175 "Internet")

     Liminaires (2 contributors)

     Poemes (10 contributors)

     Critiques (4 contributors)

     Sept proses sur la poesie (1 contributor)

Etudes Canadiennes/Canadian Studies (2018-85, December 2018)

     Pierre-Alexandre Beylier   "Le Canada: un refuge anti-Trump en mutation?"

     Alice Lemer-Fleury   "Colonial Policies and Propaganda: the Making of British North America as an Anti-Republican Refuge After the War of Independence (c. 1783-1815)"

     Alanna mcKnight   "Borders, Battles and Bigotry: the Trials of Dr. Alexander and Mary Augusta"

     Luke Stewart   "'Hell, They're Your Problem, Not Ours': Draft Dodgers, Military Deserters and Canada-United States Relations in the Vietnam War Era"

     Sarah J. Grunendahl   "Refuge From or Safe Haven for Militarism? U.S. War Resisters' Diverging Experiences of Building New Lives in Canada"

     Abdelmalik Atamena   "Hedi Bouraoui: Du Melting Pot a la Mosaique Canadienne"

     Marie-Laure Poulot   "Fuir les Etats-Unis Pour le Canada: Lectures Geographiques d'un Refuge Litterarire Americain"

     Roxane Prevost   "La reprise de la Chanson; God is an American; de Jean-Pierre Ferland par Konflit dramatik; la Transformation d'une Critique Sociale en une Declaration politique"

     Martin Simard   "L'industrie Miniere au Quebec: Situation, Tendances et Enjeux".

Event: Poetry and Prose (Vol. 47 Iss. 3)

   Poetry (19 contributors)

   Fiction (4 contributors)

   Non-Fiction (1 contributor)

   Reviews (4 contributors)

Exile: The Literary Quarterly (Vol. 42 no. 1)

     "Surreal Symmetry: The Aerial Photography of Munimara"

     Janice Johnson & Barry Callaghan   "In God's Headbone"

     Wallace Edwards On Wallace Edwards   "The Journey of an Idea"

     Bob Armstrong   "Undelivered Letters Home"

     Adrienne Drobnies   "Randonnees"

     Christine Ottoni   "Someone Talks"

     Gillian Harding-Russell   "Making Sense"

     Mark Paterson   "The Blind Man's House"

     K.D. Miller   "Elder Heart Suite"

     Norman Snider   "Who Says So"

     Jennifer Herbert   "No Girl Interrupted"

     Marty Gervais introduces nick Hildenbrand   "A Sideways Dance of Long-Legged Lines"

     Priscila Uppal   "Disasters and Miracles"

Geez: Contemplative Cultural Resistance (Winter 2018 Issue No. 51)

     Tommy Airey  "I Remember the Rush of Certainty (book excerpts)"

     Aiden Enns  "Editorial"

     Susan Huebert  "The Barriers of Inequality"

     Colin Mathewson  "Friendships Kindle the Spirit"

     Lydia Wylie-Kellermann  "Sabbath Economics"

     J.W. Horton  "The Cosmology of Damnation"

     Lydia Wylile-Kellermann  "The House Where I Live"

     Rebecca Shearer  "What Are They Thinking?"

     Karen Giesbrecht  "Scarcity and Peanut Butter Sandwiches"

     Mandy Elliott and Rachel barber  "Blade Runner 2049 Movie Review"

     Greg Halzen  "Seeking Race-Aware Foster Care"

     Jeannette Timmerann  "My Generous Mom"

     Joshua Hearne  "Generosity of  a Brother"

     Evelyn L. Forget  "Basic Income: The Price of Human Dignity"

     Caroline Loewen  "Abandon 'Taxpayer,' Favour 'Citizen'"

     Zoe Samudzi in conversation with James Wilt  "Race, Class, and Reparations"

     Brian Hull  "Let Compassion Be Our Guide"

les ecrits (153 automne 2018)

     Recits (3 contributors)

     Poemes (10 contributors)

     Le Laboratoire De L'Ecrivain (7 contributors)

     Chroniques (3 contributors)

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. 149)

   Fiction (11 contributors)

   Poetry (9 contributors)

   Falling In Love With Poetry (3 contributors)

   In Conversation

   Soundings

   Writer At Large

   Postscript

The Newfoundland Quarterly (Vol. 111 no. 3; Winter 2018/19)
    "Mary Pratt: An Appreciation"

    "Captain James Cook: The Voyages"

    Susan Flanagan  "Captain Cook's Right Hand Man"

    "Possible Maps"

    Gerald Penney and Robert Cuff  "Southwood"

    Dan Duda  "Newfoundland's Early Cartological Profile"

    Lindsay Bird  "Sentencing of the Snowbank Butcher" and "Floyd, on Vacation"

    Artist Profiles (RIAC and Ned Pratt)

    Paul Whittle  "Young Americans"

Overland (Iss. 233 Summer 2018)

     Features (7 contributors)

     Fiction (4 contributors)

     Poetry (9 contributors)

     Fair Australia

Prairie Fire (Vol. 39 no. 4)

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. 4 Octobre 2018)

     Jason M.H. Gaines   "Parallelism and Other Poetic Constructions in  the Holiness Legislation (Leviticus 17-26)"

     Wolfgang Schutte   "2 Kon 10,23-28 und seine Urfaassung nach Palimpsestus Vindobonenesis"

     Christophe Rico   "Du grec classique au grec koine"

     Jean-Rene Moret   "Que faire de la comminaute johannique?"

     Michael Sommer in Zusammenarbeit mit elisabeth Hernitscheck   "Ideen, Sterotypen und Klischees. Ein kulturgeschichtlich-diskursiver Zugang zu Witwen in 1 Tim 5"

     Recensions:

     C. Frevel   "Geschichte Israels (M. Staszak)

     K. Berthelot   "In Search of the Promised Land? The Hasmonean Dynasty Between Biblical Models and Hellenistic Diplomacy (E. Nodet)"

     J. Starr   "Classifying the Aramaic Texts from Qumran, A Statistical Analysis of Linguistic Features (E. Puech)"

     M. Girard   "Evangile selon Jean. Structures et symboles Jean 10-21, vol. 2 (J. Le Minh Thong)

• Seed Catalogue: Poems by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 S43 1979

  ISBN: 0888010265

  Publication Date: 1979

  Seed Catalogue’s first publication in 1977 changed the shape of prairie writing when Robert Kroetsch claimed a personal mythology and language grounded in the prairies. A seminal work of prairie literature, it began a new era in Canadian writing and new excitement for the possibilities of poetry in the West.
• Field Notes: 1-8, a Continuing Poem: the Collected Poetry of Robert Kroetsch by Robert Kroetsch

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 F5

  ISBN: 0825300746

  Publication Date: 1981
• Advice to My Friends by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 A62

  ISBN: 0773750215

  Publication Date: 1985
• The Man from the Creeks: a Novel by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 M36 1998

  ISBN: 0679309179

  Publication Date: 1998

  Gold makes men dizzy, it stirs crazy dreams, and then come the hasty books explaining why it never was and how everybody should have seen through it from the start. That, anyway, is the Bre-X experience, all over now except for the litigation and the books. Robert Kroetsch’s ninth novel won’t be mistaken for one of them, even if it is a lesson in the bad ends you can come to when you go looking for gold. For one thing, The Man From the Creeks is a tale of times long bygone, a tale firmly planted in the Klondike where, 100 years ago, men actually did get rich from digging the ground. For another thing, it isn’t nearly as complexly coiled a story as Bre-X, it travels in a more or less straight line, which means that you can see the end coming from the first chapter. That’s not in itself a fatal flaw. What is? The Man from the Creeks is a novel about gold fever and all its attendant danger and excitement, adventure and dash. Sorry to say, none of it’s contagious.
  
  It is the story, set in 1896-97, of our 14-year-old narrator, a scamp named Peek. He and his mother hear of the gold up Dawson City way and, as stowaways, find a ship to take them there. Along the way, son and mother (name of Lou) hook up with a fellow called Benjamin Redd who’s going the same way. In the Yukon, Ben aims to buy into a claim staked by one Dan McGrew.
  
  If this is starting to sound as familiar as, say, a poem of Robert Service’s, well, bingo, the decisive stanza of “The Shooting of Dan McGrew” is exactly where this story’s headed. That would be the one where “pitched on his head, and pumped full of lead, was Dangerous Dan McGrew, / While the man from the creeks lay clutched to the lady that’s known as Lou.” (This we know because it serves the book as an epigraph.)
  
  Chronicling a death foretold isn’t, of course, taboo. And you have to hand it to Kroetsch, he keeps his characters on the move, speeding them from one cartoonish incident to another, so the novel feels quick in its pace. And yet there’s nothing to really hold you to it. Certainly not Peek, who’s true-hearted and loyal, perhaps, but also terminally plain of phrase and a seer only of surfaces. If it’s the grip of gold fever you’re after, or the push and pull of compelling drama, you’re better off with Robert Service.
• Gone Indian by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 G6

  ISBN: 0887701930

  Publication Date: 1973

  Jeremy Sadness is a professional grad student of New York State University who heads out for the wilds of northwestern Canada to work out his inadequacies.
• But We Are Exiles: a Novel by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 B8 1977

  ISBN: 0770515088

  Publication Date: 1977 c.1965
• A Likely Story by Robert Kroetsch

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 Z472 1995

  ISBN: 0889951039

  Publication Date: 2002

  A Likely Story recounts the writing life of Robert Kroetsch, one of Canada's foremost writers and literary theorists. With incisive wit, humor and penetrating insight, Robert Kroetsch follows the events of his life, both real and literary, that have moved him from the bareness of desk and computer into the secret places at the heart of the writing experience. Throughout this chronicle, he toys ironically with the notion that he ceases to be himself when he writes, that writing allows him to escape from the confines of self into exciting varieties of the essay, story and poem. A Likely Story records in loving detail that escape. It is a remarkable assemblage of confessional personal essays, one of the principal elegiac poems of out time, a cowboy poem and speculative pieces that defy literary classification. Through them all Robert Kroetsch enters the landscape of recollection, discovery, delight, self-deception, play, grief and revelation, and through them all he insists with customary boldness: "I am attempting to write an autobiography in which I do not appear."
• The Lovely Treachery of Words by Robert Kroetsch

  Call Number: PS 8071 .K767 1989

  ISBN: 019540694X

  Publication Date: 1989

  A collection of essays by distinguished novelist, poet and critic Robert Kroetsch. In this collection Kroetsch dwells on the silence, the violence, and the erotics of writers as different as Sinclair Ross and Malcolm Lowry, Margaret Lawrence and Michael Ondaatje, Alice Munro and Willa Cather.The essays are extremely varied, and are characterized by an informal voice. This volume will be of interest to students of literature as well as the general reader.
• Abundance: the Mackie House Conversations About the Writing Life by Kroetsch, Robert

  Call Number: PS 8061 .K68 2007

  ISBN: 9780973805741

  Publication Date: 2007

  This conversation between Robert Kroetsch and John Lent is guided by love -- of the word, of stories, of reading, of teaching. These two veteran writers circle around the topic, returning to the centre, to the question "where's that damn story?"
• The Old Dualities by Dianne Tiefensee

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 Z9243 1994

  ISBN: 0773511911

  Publication Date: 1994

  Tiefensee contends that Kroetsch and his critics have, to some degree, misunderstood the implications of Derrida's "deconstruction" and adhere to a Bloomian "misreading" which is firmly grounded in traditional philosophy. She addresses the metaphysical presuppositions that govern Kroetsch's criticism, literary theory, and novels and considers the extent to which his theoretical pronouncements have determined his critics' readings of his work, concluding that Kroetsch reaffirms the very values, conventions, and attitudes he claims to resist.
• Women, Reading, Kroetsch by Susan R. Dorscht; Susan Rudy

  Call Number: PS 8571 .R72 Z8368 1991

  ISBN: 0889202052

  Publication Date: 1991

  Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference is a book of both practical and theoretical criticism. Some chapters are feminist deconstructive readings of a broad range of the writings of contemporary Canadian poet-critic-novelist Robert Kroetsch, from But We are Exiles to Completed Field Notes . Other chapters self-consciously examine the history and possibility of feminist deconstruction and feminist readings of Kroetsch's writing by analyzing Kroetsch, Derrida, and Freud on subjectivity and sexuality; Neuman, Hutcheon, and van Herk on Kroetsch. As such, the book speaks out of and about a number of contemporary theoretical discourses, including particular positions within Canadian literary criticism, feminism, postmodernism, and poststructuralism. Written by a woman reader whose theoretical and methodological orientations are both feminist and poststructuralist, Women, Reading, Kroetsch: Telling the Difference problematizes notions of writing, reading, gender, sexuality, and subjectivity in and through Robert Kroetsch's writings. In this critical study of one writer's work the author also challenges the traditionally subservient relationship of reader to text and so empowers the feminist reader as well as, if not rather than, the male writer.
• Gaining Ground: European Critics on Canadian Literature by Kroetsch, Robert, 1927-2011.; Nischik, Reingard M.

  Call Number: PS 8077 .G34

  ISBN: 0920316778

  Publication Date: 1985