Literary notes about Rubric (AI summary)
In literature, the term "rubric" assumes a varied and nuanced role, functioning both as an official directive and a creative signifier. It often denotes established guidelines or liturgical instructions—guiding the practice of rites or the classification of texts, as in the directions for catechism and confirmation [1, 2, 3]—while simultaneously serving as a stylistic device that imbues a work with formal authority and aesthetic resonance. Authors may employ it to partition genres or assert authenticity in legal or administrative contexts [4, 5, 6], yet it also appears in more imaginative settings where it marks inscriptions or even colors that decorate a scene, evoking deeper layers of meaning [7, 8, 9]. Furthermore, in philosophical and artistic discourses, "rubric" is used to encapsulate an entire field or thematic category, such as when classifying Zarathustra under the rubric "music" [10, 11].
- See the Rubric for Catechism and Confirmation in the Common Prayer, and also his Majesty's Declaration concerning ecclesiastical affairs.
— from A Christian Directory, Part 4: Christian Politics by Richard Baxter - This rubric provides for the reverent consumption of the consecrated species.
— from Ritual Conformity Interpretations of the Rubrics of the Prayer-Book Agreed Upon by a Conference Held at All Saints, Margaret-street, 1880-1881 - "Then he turns to the gospel corner, as the Rubric directs, and says the prayer for the Queen, and the collect for the day.
— from The Catholic World, Vol. 06, October, 1867 to March, 1868. by Various - It would not be easy to make a complete list of things authorised by this Rubric and elsewhere.
— from The Prayer Book Explained by Percival Jackson - His rubric was most elaborate, and he informed me that a signature was good, but that he thought a rubric more authentic.
— from Thirteen Stories by R. B. (Robert Bontine) Cunninghame Graham - "Just exactly what the Rubric meant then, it means now; and just exactly what it didn't mean then, it don't mean now.
— from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 2, No. 8, January, 1851 by Various - [Pg 306] for her cathedrals and palaces, for every line of her rubric and every thread of her vestments.
— from Library Notes by A. P. (Addison Peale) Russell - What though my name stood rubric on the walls, Or plaster'd posts, with claps, in capitals?
— from The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 by Alexander Pope - Autumn has written his rubric on the illuminated leaves, the wind turns them over and chants like a friar."
— from Brief History of English and American Literature by Henry A. (Henry Augustin) Beers - The whole of Zarathustra might perhaps be classified under the rubric music.
— from Ecce Homo by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - "It may be," the lyricist, turned philosopher, wrote later, "that my Zarathustra ought to be classified under the rubric Music."
— from The life of Friedrich Nietzsche by Daniel Halévy
