Everything you need to understand or teach On Wings of Song by Thomas M. Disch.
Disch bases his judgment on aesthetics; to understand Disch's work one must first understand that he is aesthetically motivated — that the music of his prose, the images he describes, and the plots he dramatizes are formed in part by what Disch deems beautiful and what he deems ugly. The most overt discussion of aesthetics among his novels is On Wings of Song.
On Wings of Song has the fantastic motif of "flying...