Edited by Joseph Childers and Gary Hentzi.
NY: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Short-essay format with a focus on 'contemporary' as opposed to 'modern' criticism.
By Bernard Marie Dupriez.
Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1991.
Translated from the French, contains interesting definitions of terms from Linguistics, Rhetoric, and Philology.
Edited by Frank Lentricchia and Thomas McLaughlin.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990.
High quality, individually written, essay-length entries for 22 core terms in literary study.