Stereotypes in Contemporary Anglo-German Relationships

RAINER EMIG is Reader in English Literature and Culture at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany. His publications include Modernism in Poetry (1995) and W.H.Auden (1999). He has also edited a Macmillan New Casebook on Ulysses and published essays on nineteenth and twentieth-century literature and culture.

• Notes on the Contributors Introduction: Contemporary Anglo-German Relations; R.Emig PART I: BASICS Stereotypes in International Relations; K.Greenland Stereotypes and Projective Mechanisms: Forging Links between Psyche and Culture; A.Grossman PART II: POPULAR EXPRESSIONS Stereotypes, Language and the Media: Plus ça change ?; J.A.Morris We Will Fight Them on the Beaches; H.Husemann Jürgen Klinsmann, EURO 96 and Their Impact on British Perceptions of Germany and the Germans; D.Head PART III: TEACHING AND (UN-)LEARNING STEREOTYPES With Literary Texts against Stereotypes: Stereotypes in Language Teaching; M.Löschmann Developing a Culture Assimilator: Culture Training for German Exchange Students; S.Schmid PART IV: STEREOTYPES IN BUSINESS AND POLITICS A View from a Bridge: Stereotypes of the German in Business and Higher Education; S.Price 'All Germans Work Hard': Myth or Reality? The Experience of British Students on Industrial Placements in Germany; U.Zemke Between Efficiency and 'Prussianism': Stereotypes and the Perception of the German Social Democrats by the British Labour Party, 1900-1920; S.Berger PART V: A PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE Cosmopolitanism and (E)Urope: Translating the Other; S.Herbrechter Index