Abstract: Firstly put forward by Franco Moretti, an Italian American scholar, the concept of "distant reading" refers to interpreting and explaining the development and change of the internal factors of literature and the main reasons with the help of the external forces of literature revealed by a large number of data statistics in longue durée. In this paper, this concept is employed to refer to a reading way in the age of "post-print domination". In the age of distant reading, the powerful energy of "digital humanities" is bound to reshape the academic structure fundamentally. The academic community should construct a new reading ethics and methodology for this academic situation. Taking poetics as the object and drawing upon Paul Ricoeur, François Jullien and other thinkers, this paper attempts to construct "spiritual ‘face-to-face’" in the sense of working platform, so that we can overcome the inevitable "non-objectivity" accompanied by frame-style "poetic comparison" on the one hand, and provide space for the future creation of poetics on the other.

Key words: age of distance reading, post-print domination, digital humanities, spiritual “face-to-face”, methodology of a poetic dialogue