What is the difference between Literary Theory &Critical theorey?

Question

How to distinguish between a critical theory and a literary theorey?

Answer 1

Literary theory is more to do with how people have analyzed texts in the past, so you would look at socialism, structuralism, feminisn.. all the big literary theories. Critical theory isn't massively different in tersm of academic literature, but it is more likely to include your own personal anaylsis of a text.

Answer 2

The difference is I don't have a d**n friggin clue. Thanks for making me feel stupid.