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While the politics of the institutional location and physical environment of the writing center is not a new issue, the majority of this scholarship does not adequately consider tutors' and tutees' perceptions regarding these issues. The purpose of my study, then, was to understand if and how the institutional location and / or physical environment within a writing center affects the tutors' and tutees' perception of the writing center and / or affects the dynamic of a peer tutoring session. The participants in my study were volunteer tutors and tutees who had worked or been tutored at one or more of the three Writing Center locations at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale during the Fall 2008 semester. The instruments used in my research were surveys for both tutors and tutees that included fact-based as well as open-ended questions. In addition, some participants in my study also volunteered for a follow-up interview. Given the low number of participants involved in my study, the results do not provide sufficient evidence to make specific claims regarding my research questions; however, the results do have implications for future research on the institutional location and / or physical environment of the writing center. Specifically, consideration for writing center scholarship to offer more contextualized discourse on the institutional location and physical environment of a writing center, as well as the inclusion of tutors' and tutees' perceptions of these issues.

L'excentricité, comprise généralement au sens littéral (terme emprunté à l'astronomie et à la géométrie) qu'au sens symbolique (l'excentricité comme catégorie esthétique), représente une notion clé qui dynamise et définit l'acte de l'écriture de Gérard de Nerval, sa pensée et son âme, non seulement dans Les Illuminés, mais aussi dans son oeuvre entière. En gros, elle est constitutive de l'acte de la création littéraire de Nerval~ elle détermine et active la pensée de l'auteur, ses gestes et comportements, sa raison et folie, ses doutes, certitudes, credos, ainsi que ses aspirations.L'excentricité abordée en tant que métaphore est dans l'écriture de Nerval un catalyseur de thèmes, d'idées profondes et de mouvements, compte tenu que la métaphore n'est pas une simple figure rhétorique, mais le moteur de la génération et de la régénération du sens. De même, notre apport consiste dans le propos d'une nouvelle dimension de recherche sur l'excentricité, à savoir l'analyse de cette notion en tant qu'instrument d'étude. Le but n'est pas, bien entendu, de se proposer une approche exhaustive de l'excentricité, respectivement de l'excentrique, et cela parce que ces notions débordent le cadre linguistique. Au lieu de conceptualiser les termes, nous nous penchons plutôt sur le mécanisme de fonctionnement de ces notions, renvoyant simultanément à la notion de centre et à la sortie du centre.Les notions d'"excentricité", respectivement d'"excentrique" ne peuvent pas être conçues d'une façon absolue, comme des objets constitués une fois pour toutes, c'est pourquoi l'analyse de leurs sens ou significations demande d'ouvrir un champ plus vaste de recherche qui nepeut pas délaisser les contenus idéologique, historique, philosophique, religieux et littéraire du XIXe siècle, dans lesquels ces notions naissent et s'enrichissent. / The eccentricity generally understood both in the literal sense (a term borrowed from astronomy and geometry) and in the symbolic meaning (the eccentricity as aesthetic category), is a key concept that energizes and defines the Gerard de Nerval's act of writing, his mind and soul, not only in Les Illuminés, but also in his entire work. Basically, it is constitutive of the act of literary creation of Nerval, and it determinates and activates the author's mind, his actions and behaviors, reasons and madness, doubts and certainties, creeds and aspirations. The eccentricity as metaphor in Nerval 's writing catalyses themes, profound ideas and movements, given that the metaphor is not simply rhetorical, but the engine of the generation and meaning regeneration. Therefore, our contribution is the proposal of a new dimension of eccentricity research, namelv the analvsis of this concept as a tool for studv. The goal is not, of course, to nrovide a comprehensive approach to the eccentricity, respectively, the eccentric, and that because these notions overcomes the linguistic field. Instead of conceptualizing terms, we focus instead on the operating mechanism of these notions, referring simultaneously to the notion of center and outside the center. The notions of eccentricity, respectively of eccentric cannot be conceived in an absolute way, as objects made once and for all, which is why the analysis oftheir meanings require to open a wider field of research that cannot abandon the ideological content, historical, philosophical,religious and literary of the nineteenth century, in which these concepts are born and grow rich.