Orpheu et al.: modernism, women, and the war

Abstract

The article takes off from Orpheu, the little magazine at the origin of Portuguese modernism, to reflect, from a comparative perspective, on the development of modernist poetry in the context of the Great War and the social changes evolving during the first decades of the twentieth century on both sides of the Atlantic.

Keywords

• Little magazines
• Poetry
• Modernismo
• World War, 1914-1918
• Society
• Sexual mores
• Poesia
• Modernismo