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he was the instigator of a method of historical inquiry which has had major effects on the study of subjectivity, power, knowledge, discourse, history, sexuality, madness, the penal system
“Dominick Burns was a literature lover and autodidact who compensated for his lack of education by insisting his grandchildren be well read. Dad was his prize student, though the fifty-cent pieces awarded for reciting a Shakespeare sonnet from memory was incentive enough. My father and his younger brother John would become well-known writers, and both credited their “poppa” as a major influence. Like Dominick Burns, I also lacked formal education, and though I can’t blame a famine for not getting past the tenth grade, I can credit my becoming a voracious reader to my shame as a dropout.”
― The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
― The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
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