I have been wishing for years that I could remember the title of a French novel, translated to English, that I just happened to pick up at the library when I was at uni. This was indeed the plot, with extra angst because the professor's wife always knew that he would find The One some day, and she couldn't in good conscience stand in his way but was sad because Marriage and also Little Kids, and also it was Totally Hot because the student in question was actually a 16-year-old super genius who got into university early.
I have never forgotten the book, but have never remembered the title.
Aaanyway, to answer your question, check out Amazon or Goodreads under the "student-teacher-love" category, or read this article for discussion of the cliche. Off the top of my head, I'm assuming Oleanna counts in a perverse way, perhaps Pygmalion, or at least Educating Rita. There's The Corrections and Small World which I think were critically well received.
In The Corrections, it's back-story not the subject of the novel, the lecturer is not middle-aged, just a few years older than the student, and it's presented as a stupid and cliched thing to do. Small World is comedy. student-teacher-love on Amazon returns a lot of romance and erotica.
Since dsrtao was being snarky about sexist stereotypes and tropes in literature, I didn't think we were only "counting" books that met his precise specifications.
Yeah, well, he's being snarky in a typically stupid and ignorant way. I've never understood why some folks need to run down other people's reading preferences. Especially when it's quite clear that they really don't know what those reading preferences are.
In fact 'literature' covers a rather enormous range even though [snark]we all know that Crime and Punishment is really pretty much the same as Candide which is really pretty much the same as 'angsty English professor suffers much angst while pursuing much younger student and not getting laid[/snark]
Is this your way of telling us that you're writing a novel about an angsty self insert professor who's macking on one of his undergrads but it's twoo wuv and society and his wife just don't understand him like the nubile red headed undergrad who secretly just wants to be a perfect haus frau for him, does?
(though where the stereotype comes from is a good question; Can we just blame 60s and 70s era french cinema? I've seen too many old french movies with that exact plot to be able to distinguish them by any means except the quality of the film stock used and it's really those films that seems to be under dicussion when people start talking of "Capital-el Literature" afict)
It's my way of saying I read more than genre sf or mystery.
I can't help it if I'm much better read and informed than you, nor will I make snarky comments about the paucity of your reading selections or their quality. Though I will note that since you really do think that 'Candide' just the same as 'Angsty English professor' I won't be taking your reading recommendations seriously.
It's the back-story to A Winter Haunting, an inferior Dan Simmons horror I read back in 2001, in which a dumb-ass does dumb-ass things; the lead's reaction to having torpedoed his life and career with an ill-fated affair is to move back to his evil home town where monsters once ate several of his friends and acquaintances.
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I have never forgotten the book, but have never remembered the title.
Aaanyway, to answer your question, check out Amazon or Goodreads under the "student-teacher-love" category, or read this article for discussion of the cliche. Off the top of my head, I'm assuming Oleanna counts in a perverse way, perhaps Pygmalion, or at least Educating Rita. There's The Corrections and Small World which I think were critically well received.
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Small World is comedy.
student-teacher-love on Amazon returns a lot of romance and erotica.
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In fact 'literature' covers a rather enormous range even though [snark]we all know that Crime and Punishment is really pretty much the same as Candide which is really pretty much the same as 'angsty English professor suffers much angst while pursuing much younger student and not getting laid[/snark]
Amiright?
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(though where the stereotype comes from is a good question; Can we just blame 60s and 70s era french cinema? I've seen too many old french movies with that exact plot to be able to distinguish them by any means except the quality of the film stock used and it's really those films that seems to be under dicussion when people start talking of "Capital-el Literature" afict)
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I can't help it if I'm much better read and informed than you, nor will I make snarky comments about the paucity of your reading selections or their quality. Though I will note that since you really do think that 'Candide' just the same as 'Angsty English professor' I won't be taking your reading recommendations seriously.
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