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"Open me first" should advertise this practical, pedagogical guide to the reading and teaching of Madame Bovary. Porter and Gray (Michigan State Univ.) have assembled 20 thoughtful, elucidating articles from some 48 survey participants actively engaged in teaching this novel in French literature, humanities, and literature-in-translation courses. They recommend both French and English editions, background materials, introductions, critical studies, aids to teaching, and materials for an instructor's library. Consistent with the underlying purpose of this series, contributors emphasize the nitty-gritty business of eliciting student reaction through challenging questions and discussion strategies, narratological analyses, and the use of film. Other essays propose a feminist reading, a Marxist approach, and a challenge of relevance and meaning to today's student. Virtually all contributors de-emphasize prior imposition of theoretical structures, preferring to let theory emerge from discovery of and direct engagement with the text. All collections. D. A. Collins Kalamazoo College