Literary criticism and Textual criticism

Literary criticism noun - The informed analysis and evaluation of literature.

Textual criticism and literary criticism are semantically related In some cases you can replace phrase "Textual criticism" with "Literary criticism", this phrases are similar.

Textual criticism noun - Comparison of a particular text with related materials in order to establish authenticity.

Literary criticism and textual criticism are semantically related in detailed analysis of document topic. You can use "Literary criticism" instead a noun phrase "Textual criticism".