| Preface | |
| Note to the English Edition | |
| Bibliographical Note | |
| Pt. 1 | Androgyny and the Ring: From Theory to Practice | |
| Introduction to Part One: Mythic Narrative, Theoretical Discourse | 3 |
| Ch. 1 | The Theoretical Essays of 1849 to 1851 | 12 |
| Ch. 2 | Wieland the Smith | 43 |
| Ch. 3 | The Ring as a Mythic Account of the History of Music | 53 |
| Ch. 4 | Art as a Metaphor of Itself | 91 |
| Pt. 2 | Music and Poetry: The Metamorphoses of Wagnerian Androgyny | |
| Introduction to Part Two | 99 |
| Ch. 5 | Wagnerian Androgyny and Its Romantic Counterpart | 102 |
| Ch. 6 | Musica Triumphans (1851-1873) | 128 |
| Ch. 7 | The Return of Androgyny (1878-1883) | 163 |
| Conclusion to Part Two | 173 |
| Pt. 3 | Wagner and Androgynous Hermeneutics | |
| Ch. 8 | Psychoanalyzing Wagner | 181 |
| Ch. 9 | Animus-Anima | 219 |
| Ch. 10 | Androgynous Structuralism | 236 |
| Ch. 11 | Marxism, Feminism, and Romanticism | 254 |
| Ch. 12 | Deconstruction or Restoration of Meaning? | 263 |
| Epilogue: Interpreting Wagner in the Age of Doubt | 275 |
| Catalog of Wagner's Writings | 303 |
| Notes | 323 |
| References | 339 |
| Index | 353 |
