We would like to draw attention to the following collection of essays, which
has recently appeared:
'Third Agents: Secret Protagonists of the Modern Imagination', ed. by Ian
Cooper, Ekkehard Knörer and Bernhard Malkmus
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Third-Agents--Secret-Protagonists-of-the-
Modern-Imagination1-84718-591-6.htm
Introduction
1. The Third and Modernity
Bernhard Malkmus and Ian Cooper
2. Agencies, Agents, Media
Ekkehard Knörer
Part I: Agencies
The Third Realm and the Ethics of Literary Study
Laurence Steven
Mimesis and the Perpetuation of Modernity
Pieter Vermeulen
Figure3: Metaphor between Virtue and Vice
Zachary Sng
Part II: Agents
How Narrative Became a Third Agent and What it is Doing Now
Judith Ryan
Origin, Alienation, Restitution: The Triadic Structure of Presence
Martin Andree
Crossing Over No-Man’s Land: Race, War and Isaac Rosenberg’s
"Cosmopolitan Rat"
Santanu Das
Figurations of the Expert: The Case, The Ripper and the Prison Chaplain
Arne Höcker
Interracial Figures in German Politics and Literature Around 1900
Eva Blome
"By Adventure We Always Mean a Third Something": Georg Simmel
on a Modern Form of Experiencing
Peter Schynder
Part III: Media
Touching Sense: Roland Barthes’ Third Meaning and the Tangent
Hubertus von Amelunxen
Daughters, Dogs and Death: Triangular Desire in Fatal Attraction,
The Piano and The Talented Mr Ripley
Naomi Segal
The Desire of the Angel: Message, Myth and Metaphor in Contemporary
German Literature and Film
Karen Leeder
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