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    Literary criticism involves analyzing and interpreting specific literary texts, while literary theory establishes abstract frameworks and categories for understanding literature. Literary criticism deals with individual works, applying either an established theory or an independent approach. Literary theory takes criticism a step further by developing overarching ideas and patterns from extensive criticism. For example, structuralism emerged as a theory from analyzing common elements like characters and plots across many works. Both criticism and theory aim to broaden understanding of texts and their authors.

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    Literary criticism involves analyzing and interpreting specific literary texts, while literary theory establishes abstract frameworks and categories for understanding literature. Literary criticism deals with individual works, applying either an established theory or an independent approach. Literary theory takes criticism a step further by developing overarching ideas and patterns from extensive criticism. For example, structuralism emerged as a theory from analyzing common elements like characters and plots across many works. Both criticism and theory aim to broaden understanding of texts and their authors.

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    Literary criticism involves analyzing and interpreting specific literary texts, while literary theory establishes abstract frameworks and categories for understanding literature. Literary criticism deals with individual works, applying either an established theory or an independent approach. Literary theory takes criticism a step further by developing overarching ideas and patterns from extensive criticism. For example, structuralism emerged as a theory from analyzing common elements like characters and plots across many works. Both criticism and theory aim to broaden understanding of texts and their authors.

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    Main differences between literary criticism and literary theory:

    e.g of criticism are poetics,preface and other major works etc.

    Literary criticism denotes action and a literary theory denotes abstract, an idea, a set of rules.

    Literary theory deals with the ways to distinguish literary texts from each other and establish
    categories, classifications and schools of thoughts that are apparently visible in literary texts.
    Literary criticism, on the other hand, is a practical study of a literary text that may be initiated on the
    basis of any particular literary theory or independently, that deals with analyzing, interpreting,
    extensively studying within certain boundaries and criteria.

    The act of literary criticism generally concerns with comparison, analysis, and evaluation of literary
    texts. A literary theory takes one step ahead and it may be the result of extensive literary criticism. For
    instance, the literary theory with the name of Structuralism must have been the result of an extensive
    act of literary criticism with an intent to establish a theory that certain elements in many literary
    works are like a pattern – set of characters, ideas for plots, themes etc.

    Importance of Literary Theory and criticism

    Literary theory enables a broad appreciation of global literature. Reading a text through the lens of
    literary theory provides a new perspective to better understand literature, learn more about different
    authors' intentions, and generally improve the quality of literature for both authors and readers.
    Literary theory can also influence literature, challenging texts to evolve into new territory.

    The purpose of literary criticism is to broaden a reader's understanding of an author's work by


    summarizing, interpreting, and exploring its value.

    Some of the major schools of literary theory include :

    Formalism – focuses on the structural purposes of a text

    Reader-Response Criticism – focuses on the response of the reader to a text

    Structuralism – focuses on the universal underlying structures of a text

    Gender/Queer Studies – focuses on the portrayal of gender and gender relations

    Post-colonial Studies – focuses on the influence of colonialism on literature

    Psychoanalytic Criticism – focuses on the role of consciousness and unconsciousness in literature

    Marxist Criticism – focuses on the political, economic and social in the literature

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