Voice and Fertility, (Self‐)Impregnation and (Inter‐)Dependence: The Pseudonyms and their (Narratives about) Wives

Abstract By analyzing prefaces and other short excerpts written by different pseudonyms (Nicolaus Notabene, Hilarius Bookbinder, Frater Taciturnus, Judge William and, in contrast, Johannes the Seducer), this paper explores pseudonymous authors’ relation to their spouses. It assumes that recurring motifs prefaces, such as ‘voice’ metaphor of ‘fertility,’ reveal, often ironic tones, general gender-related aspects identity Kierkegaard’s works. The thus how seemingly stereotyped archaic conception gender author’s assertion superiority (male) reasoning through writing over (female) immediacy represented voice, reflect individual’s disposition before God.