Abstract The aim of this chapter is to compare the pragmatics autofiction in Ben Lerner’s 10:04 and Siri Hustvedt’s Memories Future , two authors who, dissimilar but also very similar ways, use autofictional strategies refer their personal lives background without playing autobiographical game “by rules.” Focusing on how pragmatically they both create a sense autofiction, distinction will be es...

An empirical study was conducted to gain understanding about the motivations of undergraduate students in attending lectures. Students were highly heterogeneous regarding their reported lecture attendance motivations, with two segments representing prototypical extremes. The student group labelled ‘idealists’ in this study reported genuinely enjoying lectures, were mature-aged students with wor...