Lit-Crit

Literary Criticism is the study, evaluation, and interpretation of literature. Modern literary criticism is often influenced by Literary Theory, which is the philosophical discussion of literature's methods and goals. Though the two activities are closely related, literary critics are not always, and have not always been, theorists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism

Literary Theory in a strict sense is the systematic study of the nature of literature and of the methods for analyzing literature.[1] However, literary scholarship since the 19th century often includes—in addition to, or even instead of literary theory in the strict sense—considerations of intellectual history, moral philosophy, social prophecy, and other interdisciplinary themes which are of relevance to the way humans interpret meaning.[1] In humanities in modern academia, the latter style of scholarship is an outgrowth of Critical Theory and is often called simply "theory."[2] As a consequence, the word "theory" has become an umbrella term for a variety of scholarly approaches to reading texts. Many of these approaches are informed by various strands of Continental philosophy and sociology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory

cf PostModernism, Academic Publishing, Sokal Hoax