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Originally Posted by 1blankmind
Well, you could look at it always in a negative way. Like some people will see saying, "You didn't develop your character well enough to be able to relate to him" to be the exact same things as saying, "your main character sucked."
It's just the lense of how you see it. Do you understand what I'm saying?
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Criticism in the LitCrit sense, though, is often just analysis, and it can just as easily involve positive comments, too.
Etymologically, "criticism" comes from French
critique, which comes from the Latin
criticus "a judge, literary critic," which comes from the Greek
kritikos "able to make judgments" as well as the Greek
krinein "to separate, decide."
The academic sense is closer to the sense used for "critical theory," for example, which is "a philosophical approach to culture, and especially to literature, that seeks to confront the social, historical, and ideological forces and structures that produce and constrain it," although that destresses making aesthetic value judgments, which is part of academic (art) criticism as well.
Or, if you're at all familiar with Immanuel Kant's
Critique of Pure Reason, he's analyzing reason from a rationalist (as opposed to empiricist) perspective (hence "pure"). He's not telling you why reason sucks or how it could be improved.