Different people have diverse opinions about an issue.
The diversity of such opinions leads to two sects of the divide, the critics, and the proponents. The critics’ opinions often characterize three different types of criticism that is, descriptive, interpretive, and evaluative.
Descriptive Criticism
Descriptive criticism is a type of reproach that provides factual analysis and evaluation of the quality of literary works, which may include a musical performance, dramatic creation, and art exhibit among others. The analysis and evaluation characterize description of fundamental aspects of the work to improve the understanding of the styles, settings, interrelationships, characters, and themes as used in the literary works. In this regard, descriptive criticism explains the objectives, effects, and method of literary work. In descriptive Criticism, the critic focuses on the form of literary work.
Interpretive Criticism
Interpretive criticism involves the act of responding, interpreting and fostering critical judgment about a literary work. In interpretive criticism, the critic focuses as well as reveals the content of the literary work. In this case, the analysis is based on how form transforms an issue or theme into content. The revelations of some subject matter and the mode of accomplishing such disclosures.
Evaluative Criticism
Evaluative criticism is a type of judgment that identifies what is good and valuable and bases the findings on the constructive argument. It prompts the ways individuals react to works of art. Modern evaluative criticism is inseparably associated with the aesthetic points of view. The judgments and value aligned to evaluative criticism are exercised through rationalization of form and style of the work of art. Notably, literary criticisms should always be evaluative to be relevant and reach a broad audience through evaluation is not a sufficient form of criticism. In evaluative criticism, the critic judges the merits of the work of art.
